Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sample Komroff characterizations: Pilate as a genial, well-meaning Roman lawyer who is constantly having to cope with fanatics; Matthew as a tax collector so harried by his job that Christ's call comes as a welcome relief; Lazarus as a rich young Jewish cosmopolite whose death is caused by a chariot race he entered on the urging of his crony Pilate...
Ghandi and Nehru must cease merely shouting for independence, for the present, and announce to the United Nations how they propose to cope with two problems: "First can India, be allowed to fight her own war, as she has demanded of Cripps, when today only a very few Indians are as high in rank as captain and colonel...
...imperial supremacy-which endured from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth-can once again be saved in an hour of peril. And on that destiny-of-character may also largely depend, if her supremacy is almost over, what kind of world the U.S. will presently have to cope with. The following dispatch, by one of TIME's correspondents, is an attempt to estimate England's character-her spirit, her feelings, her attitudes-in the cold wet weather of defeat in 1942's beginning. Necessarily there is a large element of individual judgment in any estimate of these very...
Faculty leaves of absence have not been one of the problems with which these three departments have had to cope. The permanent staffs of each have been continuing their teaching while working part time on defense projects. In both Chemistry and Biology there has been a sizeable drain on the younger instructions and an increasing difficulty in obtaining Teaching Fellows. The staff of five in Mineralogy and Petrography remains intact...
Physically as well as spiritually, Bishop Berggrav is equipped to cope with the Nazis. Tall, blue-eyed, with hair that is still bright blond in his 50s, he is an enthusiastic hunter, fisherman and sailor. A hard-working bishop, who before the war was constantly on the move visiting his flock, he also found time to write newspaper and magazine articles and best-selling travel books. He has never been a man to keep quiet on any issue. If the Nazis have indeed imprisoned him, his very silence will be loud...