Word: cope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appointed to cope with the lack of adequate intramural athletics among Yard and outside house residents were six men, who have been directed to consult with Adolph W. Samborski...
Authorities were utterly unable to cope with the situation. In many cases both Sikh and Moslem police had participated in the riots. British soldiers, present in the Punjab, were not allowed to interfere under the arrangements now in force for Indian independence...
...Indonesian mess was almost providential in its timing. Joyfully, the Security Council dropped the Greek situation to cope with a situation cut more to the U.N. size. With unprecedented speed the Council voted (8-0) a stern resolution: the Council "calls upon" The Netherlands and the Indonesian Republic "to cease hostilities forthwith." It further called upon the combatants to settle their disputes by arbitration...
Muddling Through. To cope with the problem, BOAC last month sent in a new team. In as chairman, replacing Lord Knollys (rhymes with coals), went 68-year-old Sir Harold Hartley, famed chemist and transportation expert who had managed Britain's aviation gasoline program in World War II. As his managing director, Sir Harold got young (34), handsome Whitney Straight,* ex-R.A.F. pilot and commodore in Britain's Transport Command. Born in the U.S., Straight has lived in England since he was 13. He became a British subject and in his 20s he founded the Straight Corp...
Cecil Roberts, superintendent of construction, reported late yesterday from his office on 917 Memorial Drive that the Maintenance Department had received many calls from all parts of the University and that a "good number" of plumbers and laborers had been sent out to cope with rising waters...