Word: confronter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birmingham is not likely to confront its police department and demand more cordial treatment of Negroes. It is, instead, likely to follow the lead of Atlanta, prodding to guarantee that Negroes trickle into the police department (there are 73 Negroes on Atlanta's 785-man force), and trying to warm up relationships with the Negro business leaders...
...take that course; people get mutilated there." Cottle denied the charge, saying that in his experience he knew of no real "casualties." Most of the people who are attacked, he continued, learn something fundamental about themselves, a few even change substantially over the year. Most sections, Cottle said, confront the hostility inflicted on the class scapegoat, and try to analyze its origins...
...preparation, Mao in May closed China's schools. Actually, the students kept on attending classes, but they studied only one subject: Mao's thought. With youth behind him, Mao was able to confront the Party Central Committee in early August with an ultimatum: vote for me, or else...
...stage governors like Democrat Edmund Brown of California and liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Since 1958, each has had his name tied to controversial, progressive state policies -- once that often alienated self-interested blocs that had aided in their original victories. In addition, each has tried to confront the racist issue of "crime in the streets" without much success. Time and partisan bickering have dissipated the aura of freshness, novelty, and change that accompanied their ascent to the highest state of fice...
...better question is why anyone bothers to confront Pyne. "It's a masochism syndrome," opines Pyne. "They look to me for approbation, as a father image, but sometimes they feel the need to be punished-and they know that I'll punish them." Many of those who do volunteer are extremist polemicists or plain hucksters who will suffer any indignity for a soapbox. Characteristic guests on his syndicated TV show: Black Muslims, prophets of eccentric sects, American Nazis, champions of free love or free LSD, homosexuals, and Helen Gurley Brown...