Word: coping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...firemen's negotiating committee are actually in jail full time, however. The other 18 firemen spend 24 hours in jail, then 24 hours under police guard in the city firehouse. Since the in-again, out-again fire fighters "are on duty in two shifts, they have managed to cope quite handily with the few small fires that have broken out since the imbroglio began in Normal...
...flyer mailed earlier this month to the parents of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, the committee offers an exam period "survival kit" featuring "food for thought" for the student trying to cope with finals...
...foster family, nor do they have to call the ambulance, or pick up Mother at the bar. It also is to restore self-worth; they are worth caring for, and that's why they're here. Sometimes I look at them and think, wow, how can they cope? They have a real sense of abandonment. This is a fear we all have had: Whose job is it to love me? And what if they're not there? Then I must not be lovable. We can't erase scars, but we can teach them to cope...
...hang up their gloves. But in this case the instructor was Mickey Mantle and the player, Mickey Mantle Jr., who at 23 wants to give baseball "my best shot." Mickey Jr. played for a Florida military academy in his teens, but feeling that he was "too immature to cope with the pressures of being Mickey Mantle's son," went off to sell insurance in Dallas. Now trying out for a Yankee farmclub team in Hollywood, Fla., he hopes to make up for lost time. So does his dad. "I was never around to work with him. I was always...
...respect, even affection. It is a dismal comment on American society that our whifflers and wopplers and slicers and sizzlers seem so often to be designed for the junk heap. Most of the major manufacturers claim to stand by their products, as do, slightly reeling, the repairmen who can cope with them. Still, they don't make'em like they used...