Word: cope
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes of football. The line is more rugged and should be able to prevent too many long thrusts, but the backfield may be vulnerable to forward passes. Lee and Heiden are quite definitely short, while Spreyer and Gardella are about six feet. They looked lost trying to cope with a man like tall Harlan Gustafson of Penn last year, and there may be more of the same sort of trouble in store again...
...slump, did not even realize that he had been hit on the head. He thought he had been shot. He leaped from his chair, grappled with his assailant, bit his hand. Even with a knife and a pistol and a mattock, young Jackson did not know how to cope with the old man. Trotsky screamed, staggered into the dining room. Faithful Natalie Sedova met Jackson at the door, threw herself on him. Then came Bodyguards Jake Cooper and Joseph Hansen. Cooper clubbed Jackson, knocked him down, kicked his head and body. Hansen lowered Trotsky to the floor. Leon Trotsky, blood...
Last week that problem had not yet arisen. Like a cornucopia with a conscience, the U. S. prepared to pour out aid to the victims of war. But never before had U. S. relief had to cope with lightning war. Before a relief fund was raised and a relief ship chartered, the country for which the help was destined might be wiped off the map, the very port to which a relief ship was sent might be in ruins or out-of-bounds in a war zone...
...fact that if Britain defeats Germany, the U. S. will have no Nazi peril to cope with, was not often pointed to. Only a few people pointed out that the Battle of Britain had not yet been lost. "Further resistance is possible," said Columnist Walter Lippmann, "in a sense in which it was not possible to France." If the British Fleet does fall to Hitler, Mr. Lippmann said, the U. S. will be isolated completely. "The question for us is not whether we shall send an army to Europe but whether we shall use our naval, air, economic and political...
...battlefields of Belgium and France last week, looking despairingly for refuge. U. S. citizens mobilized money, food, clothing, medical supplies, men and women to help them. As the U. S. dug its hands into its pockets, it wondered how long private and voluntary charity would be able to cope with so gigantic and continuing a problem...