Word: withstand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown may be the only team with a defense strong enough to withstand Harvard's offensive juggernaut...
...Establishment media play these down, there will still be the Matt Drudges, Howard Sterns and Flynts to play them up. So whether or not an old acquaintance with sex and drugs should be forgotten by voters, it will take a candidate with nerves of steel to withstand the vetting process...
When Harvard lost Albert Carnesale, it lost a thoughtful university man who skillfully transcended student myopia and considered the many constituencies and goals of the university when charting its course. The university needs stewards with Carnesale's vision and fortitude if it is to withstand attacks on its integrity...
...them all. He then got up from his hiding place and shot each one in the face. Mease was to die by lethal injection in two weeks, and Carnahan, the governor, had approved 26 executions since he took office six years ago. Yet he could not be expected to withstand the pressure of a personal request from John Paul II, and last Thursday he granted Mease clemency...
...sheer dimensions of the brutalization in Freetown in the past few weeks have been hard even for resolute aid workers to withstand. The images that flash by them are otherworldly, they say. Marie de la Soudiere, who heads the International Rescue Committee's Children in Armed Conflict Unit, is still haunted by the shy six-year-old girl outside Freetown who raised the stump of her arm and asked, "Will my fingers grow back...