Word: cope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both sides of the prized Dardanelles area?in Greece as in Persia?the struggle for the Straits had developed into a question of whether the Security Council could cope with "internal" revolts inspired in part by external pressures...
...departmental administration lack sufficient insight into student problems. The brilliance employed in publishing a treatise invoking worldwide comment is not applied to helping the undergraduate struggling with Calenlus. Obviously divergent interests create a need for balance not achieved by mathematical formulae. The Department must show more willingness to cope with student problem and devote more energy to improving the quality of its teaching if it intends to satisfy its befuddled charges...
...nominate-no one. I am not jesting. . . . Our politicians from the President on down have demonstrated their complete inability to cope with present-day problems. Men of science are still putting their heads together to develop weapons of destruction instead of methods of construction. And our labor leaders . . . are heading hell-bent for election in their common enterprise to kill the goose that laid the golden...
Widespread starvation might or might not come in 1947; if it did, neither UNRRA nor any international agency would be on hand to cope with it. That became virtually certain last week when the U.S. State Department turned down a proposal by UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia for a $400 million international relief fund to tide the world over the months between UNRRA's end, next Dec. 31, and the resumption of normal trade...
Struggling to cope with the greatest deluge of ticket applications since the glorious heydays of the twenties, the Harvard Athletic Association has been forced to limit both undergraduates and graduates to no more than two seats per person for Saturday's encounter with the Elis, Ticket Manager Frank O. Lunden disclosed yesterday...