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Word: confrontation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose of the Trade Union program is to provide training for executive responsibility and to help union officers play more useful and important role of the labor movement. The course provides a union man with 13 weeks of actual policy questions and desistant which confront union leaders, each as organizing activities, negotiation and administration of agreements, presentation of problems to government agencies and arbitrators, and the unions' responsibilities and relationships to the community. P>Any interested union may communists with Mr. Golden for additional information concerning the Trade Union Program at Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Announces Thirteen-Week Course For Union Executives | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...President said yesterday that his action was necessary to prevent a coal strike which would confront President-elect Eisenhower with a "national emergency." Truman added that he wanted to present Eisenhower with a smoothly functioning economic machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cox Resigns Wage Post After Mine Pay Raised | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

...horse to Troy. MacLeish is one of few poets who has expressed a modern dilemma with such vitality, deftness, and fearlessness. If the task of poetry is to create or recreate life, one hopes that this poet will not be alone in treating the most urgent problems which confront men today...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Realm of A. MacLeish | 11/29/1952 | See Source »

...radio from Boston's Garden, Ike made his last, best speech of the campaign. He put aside hard knocks at the opposition, to speak "in terms as simple as these-of night and day, of the evil we face and the goodness we cherish, of the tyranny we confront and the freedom we defend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Place to Start | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...suggest that your answer to my last question contained certain inaccuracies." Moreover, since no confession obtained under duress is valid in British law, the catcher must take care not to hector or bully his man beyond a certain point. The professional British spycatcher must 1) detect the spy, 2) confront the courts with solid proof or with confessions which appear to have been made with willing enthusiasm. The spy can then be hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: With My Little Eye | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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