Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrong in Africa. And don't you believe that Stalin thinks so too? . . . How must a man feel whose army has captured and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Nazis in the last few weeks, when he is told that the mighty American army is not able to cope with a few thousand Nazis in three months in its first big campaign, for which it took so much time to get ready and which was heralded so much? . . . FREDERICK H. MEYER New York City...
...Logical Mind. In Edenton, N.C., town officials found sidewalks overcrowded with ex-autoists. To cope with the new confusion they divided the walks into lanes: one for shoppers, one for stationary loungers...
Fact 2. The Army's gasoline program has been expanded and re-expanded as aircraft production increased. The Navy's escort vessel schedules, off to a slow start and interrupted by shifts in strategy, have been stepped up to cope with the U-boat. The Baruch rubber report, with its recommendation for 1,037,000 tons of capacity, was drawn up before anybody knew how many component parts would be needed elsewhere...
Many a challenging problem hung over Franklin Roosevelt's desk last week. But in the first days after his return from Africa, he was not yet ready to cope with them. First came the odds & ends, which a returned traveler could clear away easily and painlessly...
...pallet with battle wounds, ten lie ill of disease. For every man who tosses with dysentery, pneumonia or malaria in a hospital, four others suffer, unattended, in bivouac or trench. At the root of all this aching misery is a malnutrition so vast that no one dares try to cope with it. The fevers of China creep into bodies which exist day after day on 24 oz. of rice. From this rice the heroes of China have to draw their fats, vitamins and carbohydrates. Only the northern troops of provident General Hu Tsung-nan have any health, for he made...