Word: confront
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet. On the other hand, past experience proved that nothing but unworkable compromises could result from any ordinary negotiations with the Soviet. Therefore Byrnes decided to join the American and British zones; take all needed measures to improve the economic and political health of this region; and thus to confront the Soviets with an accomplished fact which they could take or leave as they chose...
...begins to look as if there will be no place in Cambridge for G.I. Joe College and his family next fall. Each week the number of unfilled housing applications at the office in Straus Hall jumps closer to the estimated 2500 that will confront University officials by September. The bottleneck has been predicted for many months; the Housing office has scoured a Cambridge already crowded to the saturation point; the Alumni have been asked to help, and the University has achieved near miracles on a shoe-string investment. But the fact remains that unless the University administration matches talk with...
...ministry, 20 years as pastor of Manhattan's towering Riverside Church, looked back and peered ahead in his farewell 'sermon. "This generation is up against . . . sheer paganism . . ." he observed. "Out of Russia has come an atheistic philosophy . . . which the Christian church in these coming years will confront in head-on collision...
Simple v. Complex. In horse & buggy days, Protestantism's position was reinforced in every phase of U.S. life: church was the natural center for social gatherings, ministers were the cultural leaders of the community, Bible reading was a family habit. Today, changed conditions confront Protestantism "with a task for which the simple and direct methods appropriate to an age of simple and unorganized individualism are no longer adequate...
...dominant problem of the 20th Century is the reconciliation of economic security with political liberty. All other problems are secondary-even The Bomb. At the present time, the divergent attitudes of Russia and the Anglo-U.S. community toward the age's No. 1 problem confront each other in nearly every area of the world, and in almost every thinking mind...