Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stated that a University education which dealt with any aspect of truth by ignoring it was not freeing itself from taking a stand, but was in reality failing to measure up to the demands laid upon it to present the whole truth...
...Harvard reluctant to confront this problem only because it is the last Ivy League college to have dealt successfully with such a matter...
Then there is the charge that MacArthur meddled in non-military affairs. Many (perhaps most) of the important subjects dealt with by high officers of all armies are partly military and partly political or economic or social or psychological. It is no reflection on George Marshall to say that he is the most successful congressional lobbyist of his time. Reaching agreement with congressmen on the defense objectives and needs of the U.S. was a main part of Marshall's wartime job as Chief of Staff. Such a job cannot be performed without reference to nonmilitary matters...
...partisan bravery) defended himself stoutly, knocked down half a dozen attackers before he was laid low by a flying tackle. His assailants jumped on him, pounded his head with a stone. By the time the police arrived, 20 minutes after the melee began, the heavily outnumbered dissidents & friends had dealt enough telling blows to scatter most of their Communist adversaries...
Sixpence Apiece. The disturbing challenge of Soviet Russia, the hard knocks and humiliations forced upon the British Empire during Bevin's six years of office, dealt deadly blows to Britain's Foreign Secretary, but Ernie took them unflinchingly. Last month, racked with illness and fatigue, he bowed his head for the first time. "This will be the death of him," said a cabinet colleague, when Ernie turned his ministry over to Herbert Morrison in March and retired from the ring. "It is the only admission of failure he's ever had to make...