Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberties on the European front, and the German menace to this part of the world. These shibboleths--so threadbare and yet so perennially effective--are demonstrably empty of real meaning. But many of the older generation are understandingly engaged in these misguided rationalizations because they are unable to cope with a world they have had some part in creating. Certainly it must be disillusioning to all of you to discover that those to whom you look for leadership, those whom you are prepared to honor, are willing to relieve their emotions without any real thought for your future and your...
Neville Chamberlain's vein of self-sufficient obstinacy made him believe he could cope with them and made the desperate, traumatic old Empire believe in him, while Adolf Hitler repeatedly proved him wrong. It would not be too fantastic for Hitler to have hastened last week's invasion of the Low Countries in an effort to take advantage of the Cabinet crisis, to keep Chamberlain in power. If that was his intention, Britain for once had fooled him. Without Chamberlain, Hoare, Simon and other appeasers, she turned at last to face her destiny...
...People just don't have money for hospital service"-so Breathitt's only hospital is closing. The hospital doctor is going away, leaving only two physicians and young, overworked County Health Officer Frank K. Sewell to cope with the trachoma (eye inflammation), syphilis, gonorrhea in Breathitt's remote mountain shacks. To get to Morris Fork for a clinic once every six weeks, Dr. Sewell has to ride mule-back or walk the last five miles across two mountains...
With this childish underworld the teachers are unable to cope. The headmaster is enslaved to "the good of the school." Old Harbon, Coach Brittling and Mr. Feetling represent those faculty constants, the living corpse, the bullnecked coward, the moderately well-meaning...
Admiral Pratt declared that Germany was more affected by the British blockade in this war than in the last because it is more perfected. It was put into operation earlier than in the last war, and Germany is not as well prepared to cope with it now as then...