Word: confronter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barry Goldwater has the same faults that most of the top Republicans in this country possess. They come up with nice, simple solutions for all the problems that confront the U.S. and the world today. And the great danger is that the longer the cold war goes on, the more powerful these men are going to become. They are using the real fear of Communism for their personal ambitions...
...Kennedy intended, at the beginning of his term, to stay in Washington as much as possible." said the New York Times a little sternly. "He embarks on a crucial journey to confer with the leaders of our two principal allies. President de Gaulle and Prime Minister Macmillan. and to confront our principal adversary. Premier Khrushchev. There is a compulsion on prominent persons, as on almost all the rest of us. to arise and go. Geneva, Saigon, Paris, London, Buenos Aires, Havana, in time the fogs of Venus and the mountains of the moon. These can be reached, now or soon...
...Peace Corps is going to confront some of these facts goes into operation. It is going to have to deal with them, to adjustments and changes. It will no doubt encounter other which no one can foresee at this time. No one should suggest this any grounds for abandoning the program, for there is a massive to be done and the Peace Corps should be able to do it. The this point is the creation of what might be called an "institute ideology" which will make the job more difficult. Some hard, thinking is urgently needed, and it would...
...honest broker in the cold war. From time to time, aides issued dutiful announcements: Kennedy and Macmillan had become "very friendly" and were "on the same wave length." By the time Macmillan left Washington, the President and the Prime Minister had ranged over most of the problems that confront their nations and the world...
Another point, however, seems quite clear: if the Catholic hierarchy persists in its present attitude, there will be no Federal aid to education bill passed during this session of Congress. As the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal has noted, such bills confront three overlapping opposition groups. These are the economic conservatives, who don't want to spend any more money; the political conservatives, who dread increasing Federal power; and miscellaneous Southerners fearful of Powell-type amendments. So far, these three alone have won their fight. Add a substantial proportion of the nation's Catholics to this coalition, and you produce...