Word: confront
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest sources of inconvenience to the in the University is the large number of locked gates which confront one at every turn, especially those guarding Widener. To have to walk a half a mile out of your way each night to get at your books is inconvenient to say the least. It has occurred to me that perhaps through the columns of the CRIMSON some pressure might be brought to bear to open one of the gates leading into Widener at Plympton Street...
...hand at Rome, Benito Mussolini last month also scratched with such vigor on the same subject that last week the Japanese Embassy was officially and fruitlessly protesting. "There is no doubt that Japan is going through a period of 'dynamic imperialism,' " wrote the dynamic Duce. "Two armies confront each other at the frontiers of Russia and Manchuria. The peril of war exists. This event does not interest only Russia and Japan. It also involves China and the United States and, directly or indirectly, England, France, Italy and Holland...
...Government announced, without prior notice of any sort to either Queen Wilhelmina or the German public. Obeying strict orders from Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, German newspapers barely mentioned the Dutchman's execution, stating that "It was the purpose of the German Government to confront the public with an ac complished fact without long preliminary palavers as a token of justice, assurance, determination and as a warning to other international revolutionaries of the Communist persuasion." Since no correspondent witnessed the execution. Dr. Goebbels could and did put out an exclusive Government story of what occurred...
...Living Buddha. In preparation for taking office upon reaching his majority, the new Living B, Idha would be trained in a monastery. His family would immediately be raised to high rank, cared for by the State. In the case of the Dalai Lama, the method of choice was to confront the infant candidates with trinkets and toys among which were placed relics made holy by the previous Living Buddha. The child who touched a relic became the Dalai Lama. But no such method was used when, half a century ago, a Dalai Lama died. Instead, the abbot of the Golden...
...Congress rather than of an executive department and dictated by the emergency arising out of the impounding of gold during the bank holiday. A second instance of turnabout face is not so easy to defend. The withdrawal of Mr. Acheson serves to emphasize the perplexities that confront his successor. In fact the Treasury of the United States will have to get some help from President Roosevelt by way of assurances and pledges if future government securities are not to be driven downward in the markets of the world and if a way is to be found to get money...