Word: surmount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic anxiety, real and rising concerns about whether free enterprise can surmount the problems of inflation, energy and productivity...
...shooting intensified as the crowd around me heaved forward and tried to surmount a 10-ft. steel picket fence," reported TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who found himself caught in the melee. "A woman trying to get over was partially impaled on one of the sharp spikes of the fence. My hand was pierced on another. Babies were being thrown over the fence to the relative safety of the other side. At the narrow entrance to the cathedral about a dozen women, most of them elderly, were being trampled...
Unaccustomed to sitting on the short side of the score, the stickmen roared out from halftime determined to surmount the 4-3 deficit...
TERRY IS BY NO MEANS easy to stage, and the Rep's production goes far to surmount the difficulties of this complex and nuance-ridden play. Director John Madden seems, at times, apprehensive of his audience, unsure of how far to push, particularly in Terry Rex. He is on firmer turf in Terry Won't Talk, where the players' stylized panache smoothly implies a production of a production--actors playing actors. Madden's effect is boosted here by the equally stylized sets, always smaller than the stage, parading their artificiality, masterfully created by Andrew Jackness. The Terry of Terry...
...Herman's sister and mother, Gretchen Klopfer and Laurie Patton surmount the formidable task of transforming characters written as villains into people whose prejudices, though painfully unjustified, can still be understood. Klopfer gives young Anabelle unexpected sensitivity. More than just a racist bitch, Patton's aging matriarch is a woman who, unable to accept her status as "poor white trash," clings to a delusion of superiority, the dying idea of white supremacy. In contrast to Herman's identification with Blacks, his mother hates them because she needs someone to despise in the same way that she suffers the condescension...