Word: cope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boasting. Brain-Truster Eleanor Caddick, a 19-year-old student at the London School of Economics, attended Swarthmore College while in the U.S. One question put to her: "Why do Americans boast so much?" Answer: "In a pioneer country as people moved west they needed self-confidence to cope with floods, earthquakes, Indians, etc., so they boasted about their strength and courage to give themselves self-confidence. . . . A tradition of boastfulness was established and it continues." Later Miss Caddick remarked that every U.S. child has a musical instrument. Miss Morley quickly corrected...
...that finally sucked Mrs. Rosenberg into Washington is highly charged politically. She will have umpteen Washington agencies plus 20,000,000 servicemen and warworkers to cope with. Her boss, Brigadier General Hines, will retain his 21-year-old job as Veterans Administrator. The General is not quite what Bernard Baruch prescribed in his Reconversion Report, "of such outstanding caliber as to command the immediate confidence of the country," but he is an iron-willed, Army-trained administrator of the Old School. The gap between their social philosophies is at least as wide as the difference between their ages (21 years...
...week wore on he struggled with Government bureaus, railroads and labormen to meet a manpower shortage estimated at 100,000 workers; ODT had to suspend 68 Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter trains to ease the manpower pinch on essential freight traffic. But the General also had to cope with the biggest glut of strictly nonessential Florida sun worshipers in history...
...Cope's proposed solution: Englishmen should agree to form a republic, Afrikanders should accept it and agree to stay within the British Commonwealth. Anti-British Afrikanders, who outnumber and might outvote the English, were delighted. The English press was hostile. ("Sheer folly," grunted the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail...
Minister Hofmeyr's Editor Cope thus got at two festering divisions in South African life: 1) between the Union's 2,000,000 whites and its 8,000,000 submerged, nonvoting blacks; 2) between the white, minority "English" (mostly second, third or fourth generation) and the white Afrikanders (Dutch and Huguenot descent). Just what a republic would do for the whites, who already have a free vote in the Union's parliamentary system, was not clear; it presumably would do nothing for the blacks...