Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor and hundreds of civil rights workers from Florida to Mississippi have in common? Answer: all are trying to remove the various criminal charges against them from state to federal courts. They are caught up in a headlong trend that intrigues lawyers, alarms judges, and is certain soon to confront the Supreme Court with some of the thorniest state-federal conflicts in U.S. legal history...
...world's most diversified company. The oldest electronics firm and the second biggest producer of electrical equipment (after General Electric) in the U.S., Westinghouse makes 8,000 different products in 300,000 variations. The company's 59 divisions, with their 64 plants spread through 20 states, daily confront almost every American with some Westinghouse product, from 6,000 types of light bulbs to the output of five TV and seven radio stations...
...obstacles which confront women science teachers on the college level can be overcome if enough trained women enter the field, Wilma A. Kerby Miller, academic vice-president of Radcliffe, told an M.I.T. symposium Sunday...
...story illustrates the reaction of those outside the Civil rights movement to the events that take place within it. When these events confront us, we are overwhelmed. Not even the President of the United States can tell a woman whose house has been bombed that she must be patient. Nor can he remain unmoved at the story of just what it is like to be a Negro in Mississippi...
Epps is also preparing an essay to send to all sophomores, warning them of problems which may confront them and advising them to seek help if they need...