Word: confronter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speakers did not make clear the interest and position of the U.S. in Asia. They disagreed whether the U.S. should confront China now before she develops her full economic and military strength, or whether we should oppose her expansion in Asia by peripheral containment and ideological influence...
Unwittingly Unlawful. Arrest is almost always lawful when police produce a judge-signed warrant specifying the charges, which the person arrested is entitled to read. Local police, however, rarely have the opportunity to use arrest warrants. Unlike federal agents, they confront hit-run crimes that leave little time for investigation to nail down probable cause. Typically, local police arrest first, then question suspects to build cases...
...blame "the man" for everything bad that happens to black men. I am fed up with this "goddamn-white-man" outlook. It is cheap, irresponsible, and has nothing to contribute to the resolution of the nasty problems of race in this wretched world. It is high time we confront the fact that we are often responsible ourselves for a lot of bad things that happen to us; that blacks, at home and here in Africa or in Haiti or where have you, are just as capable of dropping the hammer on each other, of shooting, killing, and maltreating each other...
Surely no sensible man can deny the role white people have played in the oppressed status that has been our lot for the past three centuries. And it is necessary to confront white America with this sordid side of is history; we can no longer permit our white countrymen the cheap hypocritical stance they have taken on neurotic proportions for many white Americans...
...TIME, usually accurate, is mousetrapped by a lady. Mrs. Reich did not appear from hiding behind a bush to confront me in Okinawa [Feb. 12]. Actually, she was given the VIP treatment by airfield personnel and ushered to meet me. How come? She told them that she was my wife...