Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norman Reider, head psychiatrist at San Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital, having completed a study of bastards' fathers, has concluded that they, too, have a pretty rough row to hoe. All kinds of unsettling decisions suddenly confront the unwed father. Should he admit his paternity? Is he sure, after all, that he is the father? Should he marry the girl? Should he feel proud or ashamed of himself...
...teetotaler and a pacifist. During World War I he chartered the Oscar II and sailed for Europe, determined to confront the leaders of Europe and argue them out of their senseless conflicts. He came home sickened by ridicule and disillusion...
...important to 36-year-old Joseph Beirne, president of the National Federation of Telephone Workers, who called the strike. The N.F.T.W. represented 49 of the 83 unions in the Bell Systems' intricate labor setup. Beirne's ambition was to represent all 83, so that he could confront one of the nation's biggest industrial monopolies with one of the biggest labor monopolies-an organization of some 630,000 workers, mostly women...
...Russia was probably greatest during the era of good feeling in 1944-45, when the U.S. was making concessions which, if extended as the Russians tried to extend them, would have placed Europe and North China in Soviet hands. If the U.S. had waked up to confront Soviet power of that magnitude, war would have been imminent...
Eliot denounced the recent presidential order designed to eliminate "disloyal persons" employed by the government. After voicing a distaste for Communists, he expressed fears that abusive and hysterical application of that order might deprive the accused of the right to confront and cross-examine his accusers...