Word: cope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life. Never high, Russia's living standards today touch rock bottom. Hunger and overwork are bad enough. But the Russian has also to cope with shortages of nearly every item of daily use, from frying pans to buttons and pencils...
This week, unable longer to cope with mail, phone calls and visitors seeking the great designer, Editor Cousins made a clean breast of it. Said he: "If the incident results in a single hat that looks like a hat, Old Gus will not have died or lied in vain...
...here are more sober, thriftier, and go to church more than an equal number of civilians do. If a man comes through combat without physical harm I believe that he will be a much better man than he was before the Army service; he will be better able to cope with the problems that he will have to face when this is all over, and the serious task of living and being a good citizen is assumed...
This book is a light fantastic case his tory of the hlehhana epidemic which swept Manhattan in an unnamed year, made everybody uninhibited and hence happy. It is also the history of unsmiling Jim Rowan, Acting Commissioner of New York's Department of City Planning, who had to cope with the public and private consequences of the euphoric disaster...
Stockholm also reported that in bomb-shambled Hamburg demonstrators demanded an immediate end to the war and an active struggle against Hitler. Many local Gauleiter had fled; those who remained were unable to cope with the situation. Late in the week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler arrived to supervise restoration of order in the least Nazi of German cities...