Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to me that the people of this country have enough to worry about right now in winning this war. We are not and should not be interested at this time in a political war of 1944, and I think it was very poor taste of your magazine to confront us with that problem...
Caught between these columns were great and now partially isolated segments of Marshal Semion Timoshenko's armies. A grave effect of the German strategy was to confront Timoshenko with several simultaneous Nazi fronts, further draining his limited totals of men and weapons, giving him the difficult choice of retreat or encirclement. He chose to retreat...
After two days of run-of-the-mill registration, Memorial Hall officials are prepared to confront somewhere between 500 and 1500 upperclassmen, Summer School students, and graduates as the first batch of the still-unregistered 3000 members of the University arrive today...
...greatest blunder" of Hitler's career, Lochner said, was when he "took upon himself the odium of declaring war upon the U.S." Having for months told the German people that "we won't let ourselves be provoked" by the U.S. pre-war attitude, Hitler then had to confront his people with war against a nation whose entry into World War I had once before turned the tide against them...
...British and Australian islands fled in January when an enemy warship was reported near. The bishop stayed put. Soon a Jap seaplane swooped down to take possession and Bishop Wade, like Pope Leo I going out to meet Attila, stalked down the beach in his full pontifical robes to confront the startled aviators and demand respect for his Church and flock. Then the Japs flew away and Bishop Wade ran the islands unmolested until last month, when they came in force and put him in jail. They soon learned that they could not govern with...