Word: withstood
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Over the years, the corporations have withstood more than one setback. The Weimar Republic made dueling a criminal offense, but the practice still kept on. The Nazis banned the corporations, but they managed to survive. After the war, occupation authorities banned them again, but they merely went underground, and the rules against them began to relax...
...last document had not withstood the pressures of time and the elements as well as the others. It was sealed, perhaps permanently. But a 26-line fragment led experts to believe that the scroll contained the legendary Book of Lamech...
...Pattons were sounding just as good on the defensive. The Pentagon's favorite tank hero was the sergeant who commanded a Patton which withstood 17 hits by enemy shells. Said he: "I like to hear them bounce off." That was a little tall, even for a tank sergeant, but the tankers were obviously feeling better about their new weapons...
...Bunnies nearly withstood another Elephant charge in the second quarter. Eliot completed a last down pass, and Hank Greenberg used the opportunity to score on a quarterback snack...
...quite that long. But Snyder's car is the most radical change in design since steel boxcars were first introduced in 1914. Though it is 30% lighter than a steel car, the plywood car has withstood three times as much pressure in "squeeze" (collision) tests between two cars. Thus it is not only cheaper to haul but could trim the big-$115 million in 1949-railroad bill for damage to freight...