Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them were sufferers--she the docile one, submissive to his rages and passions, he more volatile, constantly punishing himself for his weaknesses and indulgences. But in her docility she exerted a strange power over him. It wasn't a Machiavellian strategy she used, more an instinct that to directly confront his gambling and jealousy would be fruitless. She did not discourage his compulsive behavior, and in its repercussions--guilt and remorse--he was bound that much more closely...
Healing Powers. Franco frequently became quite lucid, occasionally chatting with his family and even discussing with Premier Carlos Arias Navarro the lineup of military forces that might confront each other in the Spanish Sahara. At one point the Archbishop of Zaragoza, Pedro Cantero Cuadrado, spread across Franco's bed the gold-embroidered cloak that usually adorns the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in Zaragoza's Basilica of Our Lady of Pilar. As the archbishop described it, the dictator opened his eyes, wept and kissed the cape-which is reputed to have healing powers...
...Government, far from being limited, is bigger than ever and will get even bigger as it takes on unprecedented tasks of planning. "But it will need to become far more efficient and authoritative if it is to prove capable of making the difficult and subtle trade-offs which now confront us-between environmental purity and energy supply, for example...
...Back, when he blew up at a guy from Time magazine. "Man you know what kind of people read Time? The people who read Time magazine are the kind of people who want their news all bundled up and laid at their doorstep every week, people who can't confront the truth. Time magazine would never dare print the truth. You know what the truth is, the truth is Mr. Jones throwing up in the gutter, and Time would never print that...
...past the CHUL discussed minor changes in the House system, Whitlock said, but it must now confront housing issues which have a major educational and financial impact...