Word: confront
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights demonstrations, the Negro crime rate declined almost to zero." In making this statement Kennedy puts forth a notion which pervades the book, but is never clarified. For he supports in the name of traditional dissent many forms of protest whose aim is to break the law and confront the established order. In citing the Alabama protests he recognizes the limited aims of particular acts of civil disobedience; he even defends their good results. Thus, by including the civil rights sit-ins in his examples of legitimate protest, Kennedy enlarges on his usually moderate view of political protest...
...meeting, members had threatened to "physically confront" Ford and the Faculty if they did not consider the resolution at the December meeting...
...decided last night to confront the University--perhaps physically--with five demands attacking ROTC's presence on campus...
...with less than 50%, as did John F. Kennedy. But not since Wilson's first election in 1912 with 41.9% of the vote, has a President received so small a share as Nixon has. And no other modern President has been elected to a first term to confront a Congress controlled by the opposition. Although the G.O.P. gained Senate strength, its progress toward domination of the House was surprisingly slight. The 91st Congress will be in Democratic hands...
With just a glint of annoyance behind his thick spectacles, Author Robert Reisner emerged from the ladies' room of a Greenwich Village pub to confront nine girls and a Roman Catholic priest. "They've painted it!" he said. "Let's try the other John...