Word: cope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others, not quite so bound up or unable to contemplate suicide, the only thing left is to cope with a life they don't want. They glory in what pleasures they have, mildly protest all men's pains, and accept whatever halms are available...
...joke: I put on a quiz-show contestant grin and burble "Golly, Hugh, I've never won anything before. "But I can't seriously cope with the fact that I look like a raffle ticket. albeit a choice one, to my own government...
...redistribute resources for undergraduate education; and others. The number of undergraduate concentrators in Social Relations has more than doubled in the last six years to over 650. Dean Ford's office has been more than cooperative concerning the Soc Rel budget, but the department simply can't cope with that sort of undergraduate growth. No one has yet reckoned with these factors in considering the department's future, much less its future after a split...
...peak of dramatic intensity hitherto unrealized in North German painting. In The Martyrdom of St. Thomas, the kneeling archbishop half turns toward his attackers. Blood streams down his forehead and splashes onto his white cassock; his miter rolls away across the tile floor. The decorative flatness of Thomas' cope and the star-spangled, scarlet sky are in striking contrast to the bold modeling of his face...
...later 1970s, I am essentially an optimist. We will get back to a tolerable trade-off between unemployment and inflation, and we will again be growing in real terms at 4% a year. If we maintain our commitment to full employment and rapid growth, if we attempt to cope with the great social stresses and strains in our nation, it will be very tough to get the G.N.P. deflator consistently below 2.5%. We have to learn to live with something around 2.5% to 3% inflation. If we get down to 2.5%, we will be doing well by international standards...