Word: contend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in the South Seas, Gauguin found plenty to contend with. Among his problems: syphilis (contracted on his last night in Paris), meddling officials (who disapproved of his interest in the native girls and native rights, once jailed him for three months), extreme poverty (failing to sell the pictures he sent back to Paris, he had to count on occasional presents from his Paris friends). But he used the mingled depths of the Pacific sky and sea and the Persian-rug colors of the land to turn his escape from civilization into a wonderful enrichment of Western culture...
Morgenthaler thought that the higher baskets gave beanpoles like himself more of a break than ever. Said he: "There is more space under the goals . . . I didn't have to contend with little guys running under my legs and grabbing the ball. I sure hope Allen's idea goes over." The smaller Drury squad was unanimous in hoping that it didn...
...Wilbur J. Bender, counsellor for veterans, had been in the Navy himself and knew that Washington became confused (sometimes), so he summed up his staff's experience with the sudden influx of returning vets they had to contend with after V-J Day, and got ready for any possibility...
...leaders. Again, when Storey read an anti-Jewish police order from Himmler's Gestapo headquarters to district police chiefs, Lawrence interrupted: the letter's topic seemed to him a police, not a party matter. U.S. Judge Francis Biddle had similar doubts at another point: did the prosecution contend that block leaders had taken part in top-level planning...
Sponsor of the repeal bill was Virginia's Howard Smith, who was only too happy to have his name on the law when it still looked like a deadfall for labor. Smith and Co-author Tom Connally each seemed to contend that the law's mistakes had been drawn up by the other-or perhaps even by two other fellows...