Word: confrontational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freshman are begining to confront traditional and often agonizing questions about rooming groups and House preferences as the March 10 deadline for submission of rooming applications approaches...
...Cabinet Room at the White House, where most of the budget was threshed out with the President, Carter had to confront himself-surely one of his most difficult tasks. He is at least two people in budget matters. He is the parsimonious Depression-ridden small-town boy, the self-made millionaire out to work and save and waste not. But he is, too, the evangelical populist, bora again to minister to the needy. The contention of these two Jimmy Carters has confounded the experts for a year because a different Carter seemed to win out on different days...
...boat sails on, buffeted by the winds, tossed by the waters, drenched by the heavens-its inhabitants subject not only to the physical effects of the weather but to its metaphysical sway as well. People everywhere, including the U.S., confront the weather with marvelously confused feelings and attitudes. They love it as an unrivaled spectacle and fear it as an unrivaled destroyer. One day they curse the rain, the next they dream of walking in it barefooted with a lover. They study meteorology in school, while clinging to the conviction that the weather can be forecast on the basis...
Another rumor, the polar opposite of the first theory, is that a small gang of committed radicals is using this convention to create a student government which will some day violently confront the administration and Faculty, thereby leading to 1969 revisited...
David Karen, graduate student coordinator of the Sociology Department, said yesterday the task force hopes to organize students and confront the department's decision to enforce deadlines...