Word: reckoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to reckon with a gambler's desperation...
...reckon I'm about as close to cracker-barrel talk as the next one. I run a service station on Los Angeles' industrial southeast side. Washington is about half right when they say the talk is all isolation, defeatism and apathy. It's mainly apathy to Washington's foreign policy...
...vast desert expanse. It is a perfect barrier against the normal kind of force. But more danger might arise if an invader applied a new mechanized technique, adapted from that which the Germans employed in France, and had really up-to-date means of carrying it out. We must reckon with the possibility. A wide-fronted advance by well-dispersed mechanized units, acting on infiltration methods, would be much harder to check than any old-style column...
Last week Britons had to reckon with Captain Liddell Hart's now very possible possibility. The German Libyan offense went into its third week of apparent doldrum. The British, worrying about morale at home, made much of their successes-a naval assault on Tripoli in which the town was given a thorough shellacking, a few raids out of Tobruch against Axis supply lines, a seaborne raid near Bardia in which a bridge was said to have been blown up, a few tank patrols near Salum. And they minimized the decision of the Duke of Aosta, commanding Italian forces...
Dartmouth, McGill, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin present the most formidable opposition that the Crimson skiers will have to reckon with. Doug Mann, captain of the Canadian university's squad, is one of the foremost eastern skiers. New Hampshire's team is strong in all four events and some of its members have been cleaning up in open meets during the early part of the season...