Word: confront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sketch bought anyway, visualizing the journalistic impact of Jane's thighs and sighs ("Shiv is mine! I won't let her take him away from me"). The editors packed her, Reporter Benson, a photographer and a staff sob sister onto the next plane to Naples, to confront the unsuspecting Shiv. Twenty-three thousand feet over Anzio, Italy, minutes short of Naples, the Viscount bearing Jane and company and 22 other passengers was rammed by an Italian air force jet. Dead with all the rest: the Sketch four, in pursuit of an essentially phony story...
...rumbling was that the Vice President, on the campaign front, was in vigorous dissent from the President's kind of above-the-battle political leadership. "There has developed in recent years," said Nixon in Salt Lake City, "the unsound idea that hard-hitting debate on the issues which confront the country is somehow wrong and detrimental to the best interests of the nation. We need more of this kind of debate in this country, both in and out of political campaigns, rather than less...
This is, of course, just one side of the argument. It can be effectively challenged by pointing to the insignificance of the athletic program alongside the much bigger tasks that confront modern educators--things like raising teachers' salaries and building new housing facilities...
...Author Jacobs' engaging notion that language began in the Garden of Eden, when God allowed Adam to name the animals. With that practice session out of the way, Adam was ready to confront Eve. "Madam, I'm Adam," he said, gracefully launching a palindrome.* His ribmate was equal to the occasion. "Eve!" she replied, topping his palindrome with a shorter...
...Georgia, North Carolina and New York-require 30 semester hours of training in their subject for English teachers, the standard thought necessary by the council. In Massachusetts (nine semester hours) and in New Hampshire and Wyoming (the least choosy, with six), it is perfectly possible for a teacher to confront English classes without having studied a line of Shakespeare in college. A year of freshman composition and a one-semester look at the Lake poets would satisfy Massachusetts...