Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the professor's unphonetic mumblings police gleaned this explanation: "I thought my powers were failing, and I could not cope with my work. Rather than expect my wife to face a bleak future I decided she should die. . . . We were so happy. I wanted her to die while she was like that. ... I thought I would also kill myself...
...enter into harmful chemical union with body cells. The cells sprout invisible, mysterious little things called antibodies which act as chemical grappling hooks. When an invading protein seizes a hook, the cell gets rid of its eneny by loosing the hook. If there are not enough hooks to cope with the invaders, the person falls...
...last century the churches had . . . denounced cheating with a quarter of the vehemence with which they denounced legalized adultery [i.e., divorce and remarriage]. But one was easy and the other was not. To upset legalized cheating, the church must tackle the Government in its very stronghold; while to cope with intellectual corruption she will have to affront all those who exploit it-the politician, the press, and the more influential part of her own congregations. Therefore, she will acquiesce in a definition of morality so one-sided that it has deformed the very meaning of the word to sexual offences...
...care for parade and crowd casualties (Washington expects 300,000 visitors), the inaugural committee set up an organization big enough to cope with a major earthquake: eleven first-aid stations, 44 nurses, 25 ambulances, 154 aides and stretcher bearers, 200 men assigned to posts between the stations...
Britain was on the brink of admitting that, having stopped the Luftwafle by day, it could not cope with it by night. After Britain's industrial towns and ports had been individually, systematically smashed at night during three weeks of a new kind of mass air war, in Washington Ambassador Lord Lothian said he was still confident his country could hold its end up-provided there was enough help "from here...