Word: withstood
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...Finn forces, but the gamble was a dangerous one. Gallipoli taught Mr. Churchill the costs of a troop-landing on unknown coasts. Britain could ill violate Scandinavian neutrality while posing as the enemy of international banditry. And an Allied expedition of at best 80,000 slodiers would hardly have withstood a Russo-German onslaught. As for Sweden, her unwillingness to serve as Lebensraum for frustrated World War II is certainly understandable...
...blood-soaked snow and frozen muck of the plain south of Viipuri, Finland's Verdun, a sleepless, exhausted and incredibly brave Finnish army had for twelve days withstood a mighty offensive by the best & biggest army that Russia could put into the field. Not since Marshal Haig sent tens of thousands of Britons to their slaughter at the Somme in 1916 had a high command been so prodigal of its men. Stung by its failure, in two months of bitter warfare, to subdue the stubborn Finns, apprehensive that outside help might make the Finns unconquerable by spring, Soviet Russia...
Last week the Finns gave the world a good example of sisu by carrying the war into Russian territory on one front while on another they withstood merciless attacks by a reinforced Russian Army. In the wilderness that forms most of the Russo-Finnish frontier between Lake Laatokka and the Arctic Ocean, the Finns definitely gained the upper hand...
...brunt of the game fell on Vint Freedley, who time and again single handed withstood McGill charges which had penetrated the Crimson defense. At the most, only two of the McGill tallies can be blamed to failures at the not, and Freedley undoubtedly prevented a complete rout...
...Club, which sang;* pretty, yellow-headed Patient Ann Smithers, age six, who won the right to sit at the President's table at the Thanksgiving dinner, gnawed a drumstick despite the fact that her baby teeth are falling out; the Georgia Congressional delegation, minus Senator George, who withstood the New Deal's purge. "There was no invitation for me to go," explained Senator George...