Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complementarities which finally confront the atomic scientist will probably confront the scientist of man as he attempts to develop a single, coherent theory...
Hussein secretly mustered the Bedouins against Abu Nuwar's Palestinians, and beat them to the punch by signaling for a rising at the army's Zerka headquarters. Then, taking the untrustworthy Abu Nuwar with him, he rushed out to confront the rampaging Bedouins, narrowly saved his quaking general from being shot, and won wild cheers from the tribesmen by leaping atop an armored car and shouting: "If you do not want me as your King, I will...
...both races. To Negro pastors he said: "We have the responsibility of freeing our white brother from the bondage of crippling fears." To the white majority: "The nation is looking to the white minister in the South for leadership. I am aware of the difficulties that many white ministers confront. But in spite of these difficulties, the Christian minister must remember that he is a citizen of two worlds. Not only must he answer to the mores, but he must give account to God. He must again and again hear the words of Paul ringing across the centuries...
...neutrals gets the most money, however, are not all of U.S. making. Sometimes the degree of a country's exposure to military and political intrusion by the Communists is not matched by its ability to absorb dollars wisely, or its leaders' alertness to, or willingness to confront, this peril...
Questions, however, are rarely asked in today's classes, even when the lecturer solicits them. This might be ascribed to sheer apathy, but exhaustion is probably a more frequent cause. Students might confront their professors with problems raised by the lecture, if they were not bogged down in the stultifying task of transcribing lecture notes. Since lectures often serve as a major source of information in courses, the student feels an obligation to "get everything down." The result is an aching, sweaty palm, quite often a muddled idea of the points in the lecture, and an hour of thoughtless stenography...