Word: contend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...soldiers and 800,000 civilians. As he told TIME in a rare interview in 1975, "The saddest thing in my reign was the Second World War." Some revisionists now say that the Emperor's melancholy reserve masks the spirit of a shrewd and scheming warmonger. Most historians, however, contend that in spite of, or indeed because of, his unassuming pacifism, the unworldly scholar was often unable to dominate his nation's ruthless army. In 1941, for example, Japan's leaders turned to Hirohito while deliberating whether to join the war. Without explanation, the poker-faced monarch proceeded...
...however much my own attitude towards models and actresses had been enlightened. I still had to contend with the assumption on the part of people I met and men I dated outside the business, that stupidity was a prerequisite for a modeling career. At one point, though I had to ask myself if I really had the right to feel indignant about being treated dumb model because there was a growing ring of truth to it I had left high school at 16, a voracious reader. Now, at 23, I hadn't read through a book in years. The realization...
...South Korea. Computer printouts from the U.S. Office of Munitions Control show that in a recent twelve-month period Korean Air Lines and two government-controlled South Korean companies made 60 separate purchases of Hawk missiles and related parts. On the basis of their intelligence sources, U.S. Customs officials contend that these missiles were destined for Iran. Defectors from the Iranian air force confirm that South Korea has provided these parts as well as spares for the Iranian F-4s. One of them told TIME, in addition, that Agusta, an Italian company operating under agreements with the State Department...
What follows is a blow by blow account of Harvard's summer game, and keen University-watchers will note quickly the haunting parallels to the regular college itself. The summer student, like the winter resident, must contend with the tribulations of Harvard housing: the scaffolds, the hammers, and a contract prohibiting "firearms of any type, animals and pets of any kind, air-conditioning and food preparation appliances, high-wattage appliances of any type, water beds, and motorcycles." Each also eats in the same dining halls responsible, as much as anything else, for the thriving restaurant economy in the surrounding Square...
There is nothing lovely as a tree or, apparently, as garrulous. So contend two University of Washington scientists, who provided the surprising news last week that trees appear to communicate with one another. Not in words, to be sure, but by chemical signals...