Word: contend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Change. Besides the inherent difficulties of the task, Anderson has to contend with a widespread failure, at home and abroad, to grasp how radically the world economic picture has changed over the years since World War II. Back in the late 1940s, the U.S. was the principal source of the world's manufactured goods, exported far more than it imported. Result: even with U.S. tourists spending millions abroad, U.S. troops stationed around the world, U.S. Marshall Plan dollars pouring into Western Europe to rebuild shattered economies, and Point Four aid flowing to underdeveloped countries...
...addition to her University job, Mrs. Fainsod has also had to contend with the role of "wife to the Chairman of the Department." The responsibility for entertaining visitors plus the responsibility for the newcomers to the department falls upon her. Mrs. Fainsod has also served on the College Tea Committee, which sponsors a series of teas for the wives of newcomers to the University...
...play--before the audience learns of Osvald Alving's disease--are like a drawing room comedy, only with little humor. Even if the cast were superb, all that could hold the audience's attention is the pomposity of Parson Manders' (spiritual advisor to Mrs. Alving) and his inability to contend with Osvald's defense of illicit marriage. At great length, the characters speak to each other seriously, but pointlessly, setting up the few magnificent scenes before the final curtain...
Union leaders challenge the railroads' charge that featherbedding costs $500 million a year, making it impossible for the rails to compete with taxfree, government-built highways, airports and waterways. They also contend that the number of rail workers has declined by 500,000 in the past decade, despite freight traffic increases...
...Great Texts of Literature." "The aim of such a course would be the fullest understanding of the work read rather than of men or periods represented, craftsmanship evinced, historic or literary development shown, or anything else. These other matters ... should be left for special education." It is difficult to contend that recent additions to the Humanities curriculum follow this outline...