Word: confront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perennial problem of basketball coaches, lack of height, will confront freshman Coach Bruce Munro in this year's edition of the Yardling basketball team...
...will therefore have to launch its satellite about 30 miles higher than originally planned to confront the same atmospheric drag, according to Whipple. The data about the air was obtained through a combination of radio and optical observations...
...know no biology, but we are beginning to get [the physicist] who does not know physics. He proceeds at once to the subtleties of quantum theory without a good fundamental knowledge of classical mechanics or classical optics, even though in these fields many of the very same problems which confront him in the latest specialty already have appeared in a simpler and more perspicacious form...
...royal cousin Elizabeth will sign the death warrant. The scene shifts back and forth between Mary (Irene Worth) in her castle prison and an autocratic but waveringly feminine Elizabeth (Eva Le Gallienne) in her palace. By shrugging at geography as well as history, Schiller once lets the two Queens confront each other, and has the Scottish one so denounce her English rival as in effect to sign her own death warrant...
...Russians charged that the United States urged Turkey to launch an attack with "lightning speed," in order to confront the U.N. with a situation whereby the world organization "may have no time to take steps to prevent aggression...