Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing I like about the Oxford Group approach is the fact that they say to me, "All right, we agree that present conditions are bad, but how about starting with you? Are you part of the problem or are you part of the answer?" The way they ask the question, however, makes a great deal of difference. They do not ask it in a belligerent or combative tone, but in a tone which has a kindly approach, which disarms antagonism, and leads to constructive cooperation...
...have at times felt that your approach on some subjects was perhaps a little facetious, but I must grant that you know your business better than I do, and perhaps sometime you will get your own conviction on this subject. That is more important than having me tell you "where to get off.". . . RUSSELL E. SARD...
...disappointment over this failure will be felt more keenly in view of the fact that a practical approach to peace was deemed to have been in sight only a short while ago. . . . Given the will and an unbiased handling, these problems, it seemed, could be settled by diligent application within a reasonable time...
...completely tossed out of the window." This proposal was to set up joint subcommittees to settle the jurisdictional claims of rival C. I. O. & A. F. of L. unions, subsequently allowing the original C. I. 0. unions to return to A. F. of L. as a group. "Such an approach, it seems to us. could not have been stigmatized by any right thinking person as 'treason' or 'desertion' by either side." In other words, the Garment Workers placed responsibility for the breakdown of the peace negotiations squarely on the head of John L. Lewis...
...which side correspondents are allowed near the front, for neither Rightists nor Leftists like to let the press come near when they are losing. But last week's end Rightist chances in the Battle of Teruel were bright enough for them to allow five carloads of correspondents to approach the firing line...