Word: confronter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farm Vigil. To confront Powers with these questions, the press staged a manhunt of its own. The trail was picked up near Easton, Md., by an Associated Press stringer named Mary Swain, who had a hunch that Powers might be in a nearby estate called Ashford Farms that the Government had bought some years ago and used for mysterious purposes. Armed with binoculars, she set up a vigil in a lane adjoining the farm, noted a great coming and going of cars. One night, a blue station wagon carrying six men sped out of the gate and down the road...
Small Complaint. The same obstacles confront both surviving Los Angeles papers. But of the two. Hearst is likely to run into more trouble. Although its afternoon paper has been pointedly renamed the Herald-Examiner, this cannot conceal the fact that William Randolph Hearst's cost-conscious successors have expediently submerged their superior Los Angeles possession, the Examiner, into their inferior product. Moreover, as an afternoon paper the Herald-Examiner is in direct competition with the suburban dailies, most of which are published in the afternoon. And it faces grave distribution problems that a morning paper, whose trucks roll...
...great President," Kennedy complains. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. soothes the President by saying he would rather write a biography of Kennedy than Henry Luce.... From Gettysburg, former President Eisenhower telegrams Luce: NOTHING CAN BE DONE WITH THAT FELLAH UNTIL YOU AND ME ARE WILLING TO CONFRONT ONE ANOTHER WITH ANOTHER BELIEVING THAT AS LONG AS PEOPLE ARE MEN, AMERICA IS WHAT MAKES IT. A delegation of Princeton undergraduates calls Eisenhower's statement "a compellingly conservative credo for our troubled times." Eisenhower announces that, if asked, he will run for the presidency...
...does not seem possible that I should have to point out that drama is an extracurricular activity which must be organized around the necessities of an academic calendar. We do not become a community until September 20 each year and, thenceforth, hour exams, vacations, recesses and finals confront us with inexorable regularity...
...Robinson nearly wrecked his baseball career when he pulled a gun during a fracas in a Cincinnati restaurant. Faced with up to three years in prison, Robinson pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, got off with a reprimand and a $250 fine. He arrived at spring training to confront fuming Manager Fred Hutchinson. Said Hutchinson: "That was a stupid thing to do." "It was," agreed Robby. "But sometimes a man learns from his stupidities...