Word: confronter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Super-Duper. So off to Soho Cassius trooped, to confront Cooper at a press luncheon, arranged by Promoter Jack Solomons. "Henry Cooper is a tramp, a cripple and a bum," Cassius declared. "I'll hit him so many times he'll think he was surrounded." Cooper manfully fought back...
This desire on the part of the Divinity School to confront the sciences and humanities on their own terms has replaced what was, in the middle fifties, almost a preoccupation with the role of religion in the university community...
...place of religion in the University is to some degree determined by the openness and moderateness of the claims which religion makes," Dean Miller said. "If we're not trying to re-establish theology as the queen of the sciences we may get a lot further in trying to confront all the realms of human knowledge and in manifesting a real integrity in the search for truth...
...White House, there was an air of frustrated urgency. President Kennedy and Attorney General Bobby Kennedy are both earnest workers for civil rights. But they are also acutely aware of the political problems that confront them in the Negro revolution: the Administration badly needs Southern congressional votes for its legislative program this year; moreover, there is always the white Southern vote to consider in next year's elections...
Satanic Parody. As Pope, Kiril must confront, as did his predecessor, the specter of atheistic Communism. But he must do so in an unprecedented way, for he bears on his face, hands and back, the scars of Communist torture. His interrogator in a Siberian prison was Kamenev, who has become head of the Soviets. The Pope, in fact, is thus a failed product of (or triumphant escapee from) that satanic parody of the confessional-the brainwashing process wherein men confess to crimes they have not committed to men who have no power to absolve. Yet Pope and Commissar understand...