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"text": "He stated flatly that he could not run his airline with the middle seats unoccupied, as it was simply uneconomic. Actually, he probably could, but he stood up to the Government and ministers wilted and simply acquiesced. We needed some strong figure in the [rail] industry to stand up to government, but there has been no one to knock on number 10's door and argue the case.",
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},
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"ref": "1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158",
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"word": "Widerstand leisten"
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"word": "tenere testa"
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"word": "cum ri"
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"word": "經得起"
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"sense": "withstand",
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"word": "gewachsen sein"
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"roman": "vydérživatʹ",
"sense": "withstand",
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"word": "cum ri"
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"word": "stand up to"
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