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Word: confrontive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fully manned Crimson squad will confront arch-rival Princeton at Princeton this Wednesday in a battle that will determine the Ivy championship. Both teams boast undefeated records. A Crimson triumph would mark the first time since 1966 that Harvard has captured the title...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Netmen Settle for Second, Elis Capture New Englands | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...mending President must confront some bruising battles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now Comes the Hard Part | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...willing to believe that social science theory and the course catalogue have determined "the way things are," as if cohabiting the planet with 700,000 Hiroshima bombs were intrinsic to our nature (and thus to be incorporated into our model of the psyche), as if these bombs did not confront us with a need to change "the way things are" in our own lives...

Author: By John Chute, John Lindsay, and Jay Mccleod, S | Title: Demonstration at Draper Lab | 4/30/1981 | See Source »

...giving them voice. But students can already make noise; the problem is getting somebody to listen. The only good that can come of this proposal is financial--it will award $60,000 to the student council, where perhaps it will be used to support groups that will actively confront the administration. For the money--and not in hopes it will mean real reform--we ask Harvard undergraduates to support the Dowling proposal in this week's vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote 'Yes' For $60,000 | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

...Haig that "Israeli intransigence" on the Palestinian problem posed the greatest threat to peace and called for Israel's total withdrawal from occupied Arab land. "We see two dangers-Soviet as well as Israeli expansionism," said a Hussein adviser. "If the Americans want the Arabs to help them confront the first danger, why don't the Americans help us solve the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vicar Goes Abroad | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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