Word: cope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, when the tribesmen drove their sheep into Kashmir to graze, the British actually induced them to check their weapons at collection centers. Theoretically, the new state of Pakistan was to take over Fort Ramzak and the Waziristan problem. Pakistan had neither the money nor the enlightened stubbornness to cope with them. Tribesmen had already passed armed into Kashmir, killed hundreds there (TIME...
...Black Briefcase. Many workers really needed wage increases to cope with inflation. The non-Communists among them were willing to give the new government a breathing spell before tackling the wage-price situation. The Communist leaders, however, wanted to use unrest over living costs to spike the Marshall Plan and put pressure on the London conference of Foreign Ministers. When Schuman offered a cost-of-living bonus if they would call off the strike, the Cocos refused...
...inside his own right end he went to the tune of two touchdowns on long marches in the middle of the game. Yale's end and tackle were unable to cope with the pressure levied upon them...
...accompanying injustices were revived in a most irritating fashion at Harvard this September. A slow turnover of low-cost apartments, brimming Federal projects and the greatest enrollment in college history all combined to produce a large group of homeless and dissatisfied married veterans. In an effort to cope with this situation the Harvard Housing Trust instituted a strict priority system that temporarily placed veterans cut at Fort Devens or at the Hotel Branswick and gradually drew them into preferred quarters near the College. Ostensibly an inflexible program of unbiased seniority, this system was speedily replaced by a super priority list...
With a continuous mortality rate of men bowing out from either academic pressure or inability to cope with the youthful charges, Brooks must constantly look out for new faces. Usually he can tell at a glance how an individual will fare. The rule's exception came when an inarticulate Danish exchange student applied. Brooks hesitated. Later a Continental fencing daredevil was holding a popeyed crowd spellbound...