Word: confront
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being beaten. One Herman Wetzel, 18-year old upstart, had just taken a set from him 6-2 on the courts of the Red-White Club of Berlin and was ahead in the second set. Clearly, nobility must begin to play. Leering at the commoner who had presumed to confront him, nobility began to make loud sneers about lackeys who had exchanged the rug-beater for the tennis racket and would be more at home serving meat balls than rubber balls. Young Wetzel turned red. Nobility curled thick lips over lupine teeth; articulated his taunts very clearly, so that...
...extent of his injury was not known. Before his wound could be dressed, he rapped out an order: "Let nothing be done which will bring reproach to our beloved Italy. I desire that the country be not alarmed. I do not want reprisals. It is my will. . . . If dangers confront us, I will face them with all equanimity. Now go home quietly without using violence...
...apprehensive anonymity is unscholarly and harmful. For, each upper classman, not a transfer student, has passed or anticipated English A. He knows the elements of composition. Yet in cases of deficiency, in default of specific allegation, he must make a more or less general review of rhetorical principles To confront him with his actual written errors and thus to remind him also of the specific conditions under which he fell into the faults, would be more efficacious and take much less time. Under the present guarded procedure, this is impossible. A change in the Committee's rules upon this point...
With such fighting words as these did the 71-year-old U. S. journalist- lecturer, Poultney Bigelow, confront reporters last week at his 120-year-old rustic home in the village of Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y., U.S.A...
Finally it appears that "a mysterious old woman, la vecchia Giovanna , . . taught Benito some of her magic lore. . . . 'My blood tells me,' 'I must listen to my blood,' are phrases sometimes used by this statesman-gladiator, so rational normally in coping with the urgent questions which confront him. 'It is no good!' he will add; 'I ' am like the animals. I feel when things are going to happen?some instinct warns me and I am obliged to follow...