Word: contend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father (Alan Webb) that he is innocent, whereupon his father launches what proves a back-breaking struggle to clear his son's name. For the elder Winslow, in challenging an arm of the British Navy, has not only the law's delays and bureaucratic red tape to contend with, but the Admiralty's withering self-assurance and the House of Commons' exalted pleasure...
...Russian achievements have been large," declared Harris yesterday, "but the plain fact is that they haven't been quite as large as they say they've been." The international trade expert does not contend that the Soviet Government manipulates its statistics...
Farmers get top priority from three Venezuelan missions now in Europe. Next come technicians* (chemists, mechanics, carpenters, electricians), then professional men. Merchants without special skills are discouraged. Venezuelans prefer Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese to Slavs or Germans. Few Jews are admitted; caraqueños contend that they are almost as hard to assimilate as men & women from the U.S., tend to "pitch-their camps too near the Plaza Bolivar in the capital...
...marries deep-chested Ava Gardner just in time to lose track of her when the Japanese take Singapore. After the war he comes back to look for her and for some pearls he hid in an electric fan. He and his contraband manage a relatively placid reunion, having to contend only with British law and with a crook (Thomas Gomez...
Specialists contend that most types of cancer, if caught early enough, can be cured.* The big problem is spotting cancer in time. Every year, 30,000 people in the U.S. discover that they have cancer; at least one-third discover it so late that they are doomed to die within the year...