Word: confronter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Crimson rooters may not know what to expect from Yale in the way of personnel, they can be certain that the Elis will confront the Crimson with an array of offensive and defensive formations that are generally familiar...
Ideally, USNSA seeks to confront American students with questions about the world beyond the academic community. The debates which flare every summer at NSA congresses are intended to serve as starting points for discussion at member schools during the ensuing year. And though this ideal is not always fulfilled, USNSA has generated vigorous debate on a number of issues (the House Un-American Activities Committee, student civil rights and educational policy...
...prominent Gaullists to a rally at the Palais de Chaillot for his newly formed Association for the Fifth Republic. In a brilliant and scathing attack on the old party system, Malraux charged that opposition leaders had not been able to unite to bring peace in Algeria, to confront the revolt of French generals, or to further Franco-German reconciliation. Sarcastically he added, "But they did unite before the terrifying menace" of the referendum...
...Kennedy has never held elective office in his life. He has refused to confront his two major opponents in open debate, apparently out of the well-found fear that he is no intellectual match for either of them. Out of seventeen opportunities since he was twenty-one, he has voted only four times in local, state, and national elections. He has made no record of accomplishment in any area of human endeavor to suggest that he is remotely qualified for the U. S. Senate. As Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, an outspoken "New Frontier" advocate, said some months ago of Teddy...
Tangible Menace. This dramatic expression of hemisphere solidarity was the end of a long, patient road for the U.S., and a signal victory for Dean Rusk. Time after time in past conferences the U.S. had urged on its neighbors the need to confront Castro and Communism. Yet always before, the key nations of Latin America had ducked a commitment. Lingering prejudice against Yankee intervention and the fear of left-led masses back home turned last January's Punta del Este conference into a weary marathon. Patiently, Rusk had listened to the arguments from Mexico, Brazil and the others. Doggedly...