Word: reckoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government. Perón's top army officers, after some doubtful days, had stayed loyal; his labor-union support, though less important in this crisis than the army's backing, had hardly wavered. At week's end the Argentine dictator was again a power to reckon with...
...want the Western alliance will quickly see that such a proposal is in effect as much a block to reunification as an unequivocal "no." This group, which is growing and will continue to grow in the months to come, is the one with which Western policy will have to reckon. A realistic German policy must therefore work out some means by which Germany can be reunified and remain allied with the West. This will be a difficult and possibly impossible task, but it is one which we must face if it will retain German power in the Cold...
Backsliding students were not so bothersome as President Henry Dunster, who objected violently to traditional methods of baptism. But Dunster had to reckon with the Rev. Jonathan Mitchell, known to all as "matchless Mitchell a mighty man in prayer." The debate ended with President Dunster penitent, but out of office. Although the college soon came to dominate the community, church-college relations remained amicable. The President was always careful to announce the date of Commencement, so that the congregation could preserve their prayer books and cushions from destruction at the hands of celebrating seniors...
...insured until Chiang Kai-shek and his chief lieutenants have been safely stowed away on St. Helena and the U.S. Seventh Fleet sent to guard him there." At week's end, the Labor Party unanimously approved a resolution demanding that the government tell the U.S. "it could not reckon on any military assistance from Britain in hostilities connected with the offshore islands...
Flattened Curve? One big trouble with the auto workers' G.A.W. is that there are so many possible variations that no one knows just how much it would cost. Automen have had actuaries working on the project for two years, and reckon the cost might run as high as $5 billion in the first year. But the biggest problem is the one the union also fears the most: seasonal fluctuations in auto sales...