Word: confrontations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regret to record these matters," Bishop Oxnam said. "But ... we confront a crisis, now worldwide, in which freedom itself is at stake. The Roman Catholic Church does not believe in religious liberty as we understand it. The Communist Party does not believe in civil liberty as we understand it. When either the Roman Catholic Church or the Communist Party, acting upon its belief in these matters, seeks to deny to us either religious or civil liberty, our own freedom is involved, and it is not a part of tolerance to submit to such denials until at last our freedom passes...
Unlike Tono Bungay, rotary traffic is not intended to cure everything. As it is being administered by the Cambridge Engineers Office at present, it is aimed at alleviating one or two of the more important problems that confront Harvard Square rather than solving the entire constipated traffic mixup. Though the first two days of the experiment was a fiasco, the City Engineer's Office last week, in conjunction with the State Engineering Office, installed a substantial number of stoplights, cross-walks and other innovations. The end result has been a safer but more complicated Harvard Square...
...several occasions our men . . . had to confront the enemy face to face. Blood has already been shed . . . Rumors are still being heard. At first these rumors were spread by Western persons . . . But we knew that the Red army cannot attack a Socialist country because that would mean the end of Socialism in the world . . . But today those in the East are also trying to intimidate us, disseminating rumors ... of this many and that many Soviet divisions in one place or another . . . We are afraid only of elemental upheavals, droughts and hail . . . [We are] prepared to defend our country against...
Conant set forth as his thesis, "What can I, as a single individual, do to assist in times like these?" He contended that although the new graduate must be aware of global problems, with great sympathy for the issues which confront peoples of other countries, his first duty is "to make of the United States an improved United States...
...appalled by the news. They blame themselves more than the children, and it is lucky for them that they are so merciful. For, in the very course of probing the children's small sin to the bottom, their own larger sins suddenly escape out of the past and confront them. The family butler turns out to be Sir Roderick's son. One of the schoolteachers proves to be a son of Grandpa Firebrace. And the second Lady Shelley, it turns out, has sold jewelry that does not belong...