She built herself up to director, brought the Mona Lisa to the Soviet Union and outlasted every leader from Stalin to Yeltsin to become the doyenne of Russia's art world.
Patches, a stuffed dog who predated, and outlasted, that bear, was handmade for me as a baby by a friend of my grandmother's from small quilted squares.
We all wondered how Maurice Hank Greenberg Maurice Hank Greenbergberg, who outlasted 15 Yankees managers, from Ralph Houk Ralph Houk through Joe Torre Joe Torre, could manage these colossal feats as AIG's chief executive.
The Russian - Ivan Demidov, from Moscow - and the Dane - Peter Eastgate, from Odense - outlasted more than 6,800 players and were about to go heads up, mano-a-mano, for poker's premier prize.
Akiko Morigami outlasted the qualifier Akgul Amanmuradova from Uzbekistan yesterday to earn a 6-7 (8), 6-3, 6-3 win and her second finals berth in three years at the Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open in Mason Ohio.Morigami, the seventh seed from Japan, had 17 chances to break Amanmuradova's serve and converted just four.
The popularity of the original VW Microbus from the 1960s outlasted its production life.
Yet Mr. Church, whose father was Frank Forrester Church III, a Democratic senator from Idaho, has long outlasted his doctors' grim forecasts.
"Our hearts [are] pumping right now," Thomassen said after his team outlasted Cathedral Catholic 16-166), whish is from the CIF San Diego Section.
As it was, the 49-year-old actor outlasted two stuntmen, who developed earaches from working 30 feet under water.
Coach Bob Toledo of U.C.L.A., after his team outlasted Fresno State, 24-21, despoor performancesances from Ryan McCann and Scott McEwan.
Then, almost in his next breath, he rattled off phrases that could have been cribbed from the skeptics he has outlasted: "the esoteric seizure," "effluvium and effluvium".
