Word: reckon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cornell study window. Different in temper and approach, Becker and Jones can nevertheless be reconciled and harmonized. They want the same thing: a four-power agreement among the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans and the British. They want the agreement to be moral in content. Whether they reckon with the possibility that moral unity may prove to be a pious dream in a world that includes both communists and free enterprisers is something else again. Even the most intransigent of realists flinch at the prospect of continued war between these two groups...
...college graduate, Hoffman tried his idea on some 20 educators and historians, found them sympathetic, then found in C. (for Clinton) Hartley Grattan an enthusiastic collaborator. Author Grattan (The Deadly Parallel, Australia's Foreign Policy, etc.) once called the usual written history "academic mythology . . . because it fails to reckon with the buzzing, multifarious reality in which men acted the events...
...reckon 'bout thirty or forty dollars...
...important facts qualify this picture of official Poland: 1) the Government still has to reckon with some feudal-minded, unbending figures who are totally unfitted to deal with Poland's plight; 2) the influence of some ultraconservative, violently anti-Russian leaders of the Polish Army is still strong, although they are not actually in the exiled government...
...room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls so big that you could a-throwed a cat betwix them without tetching a hair." Emmy's parents were hillbilly sharecroppers. She was christened Joy May Creasy. Says she: "I started strippin' tobakker when I was eight, I reckon. Summers I chopped out corn and wormed and suckered tobakker. I reckon I allus wuz a show-off." Joy May's schooling lasted two weeks...