Word: face
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delighted to see the face of Dr. Waksman peering from the cover of TIME [Nov. 7]. The pictures of politicians, prizefighters, musicians, models, etc. are all right in their small sphere; but the work of men like Dr. Waksman, which results in good for all mankind, regardless of race, creed or color, is of much greater importance...
...Dominant Element. The science of destruction, growing by leaps & bounds since World War I, has changed, and continues to change the whole face of warfare. During World War I, precision manufacture, mass production and the internal combustion engine upset all the old techniques. Barbed wire and the machine gun, recalls Author Bush, "ended forever the hot rush of masses of men." In modern times, says he in a typical scientist's estimate, not man but the factory became "a dominant element in the whole paraphernalia...
...Canceled Bomber. On the other hand, the bomber in mass formations over land targets had become very vulnerable. One lesson of World War II, says Bush, is that "bombardment of enemy cities in the face of determined defense, as the sole means of bringing victory over a foe of equal or comparable strength, was a delusion, and not worth the extreme cost and effort it entailed . . . [In the future] no fleets of bombers will proceed unmolested against any enemy that can bring properly equipped jet pursuit ships against them in numbers, aided by effective ground radar, and equipped with rockets...
Once in a while, the old Faulkner power comes through in a blaze of language, an original phrase (a gangster has "a face like a shaved wax doll"), or an insight into rural character. But except for Tomorrow, an effective account of how the family loyalties of a poor-white clan can tangle the job of justice, the stories fall between two stools: they are neither ingenious enough to be good detective yarns nor deep and free enough to be good Faulkner Detective-story fans will be horrified to find crucial clues spelled out in italics; Faulkner fans will find...
Yale yesterday suspended three students who used mountaineering tactics to scale the face of Memorial Hall late Wednesday night, but were trapped by police spotlights before they could whitewash huge Y's on the roof of the bell tower...