Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some "movements of social protest have rejected the church and Christian faith and have developed ideologies, often based on illusory hopes, that have become for millions of people inadequate substitutes for religion." The church should do everything possible "to disclose the illusions in these ideologies and to confront the world with the Gospel in its fullness, but at the same time it should in humility not forget that it has often obscured the radical demands of the Gospel...
...fact that a teacher is so summoned," Moskoff said. And the evidence bears out the great secrecy of the interviews at which a lawyer may accompany the summand teacher. If any charges are levied against a teacher he has the right to a public trial, to counsel, to confront and cross-examine accusers and to testify in his own defense. He cannot be fired until his guilt has been proved before a court of law with rights of appeal and reinstatement should dismissal be held improper...
...Authoress Honor Tracy, "are very peculiar things. They are rarely allowed to spoil the sweep and flow of conversation." In casting aside the grave, ascetic leader whom many of them had served with respect approaching reverence for three decades, the Irish were characteristically unconcerned with facts. Many grim realities confront Ireland in her 33rd year of independence: an emigration rate that is bleeding her white of young blood at the rate of 20,000 a year, an agricultural economy that has still only one market (the U.K.), a soaring unemployment that reached 80,000 this year. Yet none of these...
...long as the U.S. stays ahead of the Communists in the search for more powerful weapons, Churchill continued, the hydrogen bomb will be a deterrent to war. The U.S. advantage also gives "time, though not too much time, to consider the problems which now confront us . . . and to talk them over in their new proportions...
...Sulgrave Club, the four Republicans caucused informally, and McCarthy said he would talk to Cohn. Next day he reported back: "Roy denies everything categorically. You haven't seen the other part of the story." They agreed that they would meet in the committee's office on Friday, confront Roy Cohn with the report and decide what to do next...