Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weaponed spearheads of Japanese attacks are allowed to drive into the Chinese mass. Then the mass of Chinese gradually not only envelops the spearhead, but harrasses its support and its supply lines. This sort of tactic might have bothered the Germans in France if the Germans had had to cope with so immense a battlefield, with such campaign-wise veterans as the Chinese, and with an enemy outnumbering them three or four...
Early this month, when President Roosevelt requested planes for Lend-Lease use, OPM scooped 30 big transport planes from the fields, left the lines with about 360 planes-hardly enough to cope with the soaring traffic curve.* For the duration, the lines are resigned to being "frozen"-moderate schedule increases; passenger priorities if planes get too crowded; few new craft; few-if any-improved models...
...back complications ensued. Not having bridges to cope with on Lake Waban, the coxswainess was terrified to see the Anderson structure approaching at a rapid speed, broke her rudder in avoiding it. Assistance was plentiful and the damage was soon remedied. Further confusion resulted when an eight and a single, neither one intent on their own rowing, side-swiped each other in the shadow of the bridge and the boat continued merrily...
...shells spent last night securely lodged in Newell Boathouse preliminary to this afternoon's Compton Cup Regata between Harvard, Tech, and the Tiger. Although the Orange and Black comes to the Charles with shirts won from Rutgers and Navy, it is generally felt that the big Crimson Varsity can cope with anything the Bengals offer...
...massacre of 1937 (TIME, Nov. 1, 1937). The mob was ill-advised on both counts. Elie Lescot wangled an indemnity out of President Trujillo. And Stenio Vincent loves leisure more than power, would like to take President-elect Lescot's place in Washington, leaving the new President to cope with Haiti's growing unrest alone...