Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aims of the group were confined principally to furthering interest in the United Nations, and in promoting public discussion of the issues which confront that group. The College Council stands opposed to the world federalist idea, feeling that progress must come through the United Nations...
...outstanding features of the U.T. are its reserved seat section (including 225 of its 1900 seats) and its unique usher formations. At the end of each portion of the program, two ushers stalk down the two center aisles, confront each other at the front of the house and then retrace their steps to the rear, meanwhile eyeing the audience and staring down curious spectators. Sumner insists that the sole purpose of the maneuver is to attend to the convenience and comfort of his audiences and denies all reports of morning drill sessions for his usher corps...
...three speakers, all of whom have studied in China, are expected to present varying views on the problems which confront the oriental country. Professor Pound, outstanding legal theorist, will outline the development. Lindsay, son of Lord Lindsay, English political scientist, will describe the activities of the Chinese Communists...
...Henry Cabot Lodge, his opponent in the Senate race, rightly could and did say last week: "More than a year after the end of the war, we confront shortages of sugar, soap, white shirts, clothes for children, while newspapers tell us of factories closing down for lack of raw materials and of automobile companies scrapping their plans to expand. All this in a country which persists in shipping large quantities of many much-desired articles to a country like Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia, in which our own citizens and other friends of human freedom, such as Archbishop Stepinac, have...
...could accurately forecast the effect of the Government victories on the Nanking negotiations. The Generalissimo, returning from Formosa, would have new successes with which to confront Chou Enlai. He might stiffen his recent eight-point peace proposal-or modify his demands (as he had done after Kalgan...