Word: cope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials of the transportation industry stayed up late last night perfecting plans to cope with the traditional efflux, while highway police prepared to welcome the holiday crowd...
Hollywood has to cope every day with pressure groups, but last week moviemen felt pressure from a fading minority which it has used as a villain ever since the movies were galloping tintypes. The Association on American Indian Affairs formed a national committee to get better movie treatment of the red man. Announced the association's president, Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge: "Motion-picture producers themselves are now more responsive to the problem, and are taking significant steps in current feature productions to give Indian material fair and authentic treatment...
After centuries of living 2½ miles or so above sea level, says Dr. Monge, the Andean native has become "a climato-physiological variety of the human race." To cope with the low oxygen supply in the air he breathes, the typical inhabitant of the high Central Andes (including parts of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) has developed a barrel chest with extra lung capacity. He carries about two quarts more blood than the coastal Peruvian, about half again as much hemoglobin (the blood's oxygen-carrying component). His heart rate is slow and steady. "An ideal heart...
Symbol on a Hill. General Sheetz and his staff, who are now engaged in the first organized effort in four years to cope with Okinawa's problems, are recruiting a force of 60 to 80 planners to act as a kind of junior SCAP for Okinawa. At Naha, where in May 1945 U.S. forces encountered some of the invasion's stiffest Japanese resistance, U.S. engineers are busy with plans to rebuild the battered port, talk of a new one capable of taking the Pacific's biggest ships. On the broad runways of Naha airport, rows...
...Chinese Communists are entering a long period of stress. They must cope with vast economic and technological problems, with provincial and local dissidents. If the U.S. recognizes the Red regime, it could maintain consular posts to observe the difficulties and possibly encourage opposition. Also, the presence of U.S. diplomats would tend to "inhibit" Russian moves to strengthen the Russian grip on China...