Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third and probably largest grouping are those who feel something should be done, but do nothing. They remain silent, cowed by fear of the consequences of any radical anti-government activity. The perils they confront are delineated in an editorial the student newspaper at Witwatersrand University wrote last year after 2,000 students and faculty demonstrated against the sweeping Sabotage...
Rugby has been played in various forms in England since the twelfth century. According to legend, teams with up to a hundred players would confront each other on village commons and attempt to put an improvised ball between two trees. The rules varied considerably from town to town...
Thirteen colleges, including Harvard, have taken an initial step in standardizing the mass of application forms which confront a student applying to college...
...ordered. Wallace presumably would refuse. Katzenbach would then order the students to be taken to their dormitories. Bobby would be notified and in turn would tell the President, who would then sign a prepared executive order federalizing the National Guard. Katzenbach would return to the school door and again confront Wallace. This time he would have with him the National Guard commander and four beret-capped Special Forces soldiers. The commander would ask the Governor to let the students pass. If Wallace again refused, the G.I.'s would form a tight wedge and try to move on through...
...nine, her mother committed suicide; Charlotte's picture shows her just before she leaped from a window. Her father was taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; her picture of him working under a guard's whip is a frenzied sketch, as if she could not bear to confront her easel. She fled from Germany; the scene of her last night at home is a lonely vigil over suitcases...