Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Roosevelt talks big about liberty and global harmony, Author Franklin ( & friends) confront him mercilessly with the harsh realities of economic security and power politics. On the other hand, Churchill, whose hardheadedness Moderator Franklin clearly favors, gets away with oratorical murder on the subject of the divinely-created British Empire...
...price tag also for multilateral trade agreements by the U.S. Whether these would continue would depend on "the type of competition we confront from foreign state monopolies and from a growing habit abroad of making bilateral agreements for political as well as economic purposes. These habits could force us into defensive tactics which we would not voluntarily embrace...
...this amusing, serio-comic study, Author Hodgins, one of FORTUNE'S editors, puts the Blandings over just about all the jumps that confront the well-set businessman and his wife in their expensive search for the simple life...
...Family. In Newburyport, Mass., Truckdriver Stanley Morrison smashed into a train, got out to confront the engineer, found it was his father...
Although the psychological pressures that complicate a serviceman's return to academic life have received careful attention from various offices, the pattern of readjustment is not yet clear. For one thing, the veteran finds himself initially bewildered by the sudden array of responsibilities that confront him when he returns to college. The veteran may consider himself fortunate to be clear of that chain of command that formerly made decisions for him. But with the blessing of external freedom has come the impact of an over-severe self-judgment which has focused itself narrowly upon the accepted standards of academic success...