Word: coping
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...larger than a mortar. The American fighting man had moved a long way from the revolutionary rabble of 1775; he had become, in a manner of speaking, the British Redcoat of 1950-confident of superiority and aware of the power of a great nation behind him, but unable to cope with ragged characters firing from ambush...
Other colleges have tried a wide varsity of rules and regulations to cope with the problem of student's women guests. Most of them are stricter on the subject than Harvard; few allow women in student rooms at any time...
...while Al Gauthier and sophomore Joe Christopher will open at guard. All but Christopher are senior lettermen. Both Kozak and Gauthier stand five foot seven, while at six three Creswell and Whelan are but an inch taller than Christopher. There is no one on the Squad big enough to cope with Ed Smith or Dick Lunette, who are both over six five...
MacMurray's homestead is equipped with props out of the Coney Island fun house: loose floorboard, collapsing bed, backfiring stove and a small gale that hits at the worst possible time. Heroine Dunne must also cope with livestock and servant problems, gossipy neighbors, a spoilsport (William Demarest) who controls the water supply, and the delicate affections of her husband's two daughters by another marriage...
...Manhattan Book Fair for children, stage & screen Bogeyman Boris Karloff called for more realism and violence in moppets' books. A diet of namby-pamby stories, he said, gives "the younger generation a completely distorted picture of the world we live in and leaves them totally unequipped to cope with the world's very real problems...