Word: confront
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record is deceiving in that many of the teams the Crimson has thrashed decisively are very weak. Lawrence Academy, Tufts, and Middlesex had virtually no power with which to confront the only average Crimson squad. In the games which were really indications of the team's ability, such as the Dartmouth, Andover, and Exeter contests, the squad has shown itself to be hard fighting, but quite unsteady and inconsistent...
...save College tourists from the inconveniences which confront the erring border-crosser, Downing released several warnings about import duties and currency exchanges...
...limits, the new course may lose direction in its huge field. The attempt to make the material more digestable may only make it easier, sacrificing the valuable disciplinary training which History 1 provided. In its prime, History 1 set high standards. To justify the change, Social Sciences 1 must confront the same problems and show that it can solve them more successfully...
...which the unique and precious character of Americanism depends ... I want the Republican Party to be liberal enough to march with the times, to dare new answers to new problems, and to use the power and strength and initiative of government to help citizens to help themselves when they confront problems beyond their resources and control." Both Vandenberg's and Dewey's speeches were attempts to pin a label on the party's philosophy, instead of letting the party's deeds earn their own label...
...these six, four were written in 1936, apparently a crucial year for Novelist Greene's development. What gives them literary value is the clarity with which they confront the author's religious faith with the paradoxes and atrocities of reality, including a certain "drab empty forest ... where it is impossible to believe in any spiritual life, in anything outside the nature dying round...