Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems of the U. S. itself were those which confronted the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. when its bishops, clergy and laity met last week for its 53rd triennial General Convention in Kansas City. Like the U. S., Episcopalians have problems of foreign policy: how to cope with the Japanese, what to do about aid to Britain, how to protect their investments (missionary enterprise) abroad, how to cooperate with other churches. Like the U. S., they also have domestic problems: the financing of a crisis-upped budget, family relationships, youth problems, how to safeguard their conscientious objectors...
...long, brilliant procession streamed into the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium's vast red, white & blue arena. In the army marched bishops from five continents, some in white rochets, some in crimson convocation robes; His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun XXIII, the bearded Patriarch of Assyria, wearing a gorgeous golden cope; Canada's Primate, the Most Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, Archbishop of Toronto; and at procession's end the U. S. Presiding Bishop, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia. Beside the high altar, in the shadow of its towering reredos, he was enthroned...
Referring specifically to foreign affairs the State Department official declared that "The President has lived with the problem for seven years and has the knowledge and ability to cope with it, which Willkie completely lackg. The only issue is the comparative competency of the two candidates...
Passing was the specialty of the day, and the rather green and unorganized Yardlings were unable to cope with the Deacons' aerial blitzkrieg...
Because of the constantly changing plans of families in Britain and the difficulties in obtaining transportation to this continent, members of the Committee can not tell from one day to the next what problems they will have to cope with...