Word: confront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witness, now an unemployed pressagent, swore that he had seen Anna Rosenberg at meetings of the Communist-front John Reed Club in New York in 1935 and 1936, stuck to his story even when he was led in to confront Mrs. Rosenberg and she denied his charge in every detail. From then on, the committee began to dig up a veritable sea gull's nest of rotting political fish heads...
Purpose of the new overall body is to pool the best ideas and techniques each group has to offer, and to confront the world with an immensely more powerful united voice. The combination will also save money. By 1952 the Council's budget is expected to amount to less than the previous combined budgets of the constituent agencies...
...Best Thing. Faced with their child's deafness, says Professor Myklebust, some parents become overprotective, allow the child to play tyrant, fail to prepare him for the problems ahead. Other parents take the opposite extreme; they make no allowances for the child, confront his handicap with open hostility. Still other parents weep in front of the child, drag him to specialist after specialist for further treatment...
...Western Europe, defenseless now, can be made defensible if the U.S. and its Allies immediately start an urgent program of mobilization and armament. A world crisis in 1953 could confront the Russians with the possibility of atomic attack by the U.S. and at the same time deny them their present opportunity to take Western Europe. If they had to fight hard for Western Europe, their pipeline to the front would need filling from factories-which could be destroyed by bombing. Under such circumstances the U.S. atomic superiority would have more chance that it now has of being strategically decisive...
...terms of immediacy of interest most of TIME'S news subjects are precisely the same as those that confront all U.S. editors: Senator McCarthy's hunt for Communists, the Cold War, the flying saucer legends, the pensions strike at Chrysler, the shooting of Charlie Binaggio, the high level of steel production, etc. Most of TIME'S stories, like most newspaper stories, concern spot news...