Word: face
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reunion. In Zanesville, Ohio, Robert McNutt Campbell, 29, who landed in the city jail on a drunkenness charge, was surprised to see a familiar face in the adjoining cell: his father, whom he had not seen since...
...climbed into his 1948 Plymouth sedan in Washington last week, settled his Panama on his head and headed for Cleveland. The back of his car was piled with suitcases and a filing cabinet full of material for speeches. Sunday afternoon, with an ear-to-ear grin wreathing his spectacled face, he drove into Cleveland's southeast end and walked into the Cloverleaf Café. "Hey boys," said someone, "here's Senator Taft...
...that had been bemused for a hundred years with the idea of automatic, illimitable progress (i.e., heaven by osmosis). The world of 1949 was not one to call forth admiration; but it was no longer a smug world. It had not solved its problems, but it had begun to face them...
Cripps appeared still dead set against devaluation of the pound ("A rude word not allowed to be scribbled on the Treasury walls," cracked one British official). But more & more, in the face of Britain's dwindling dollar reserves, British opinion itself was pressing for devaluation. It was argued that devaluation was inevitable anyway, and that its delay had become a "psychological" obstacle to traders in the sterling area. London's Economist summoned British "statesmanship" to meet the crisis with "imagination...
Tito had a heavy tan, which made his white-streaked blond hair seem even lighter in color, but he did not look 57. His face was just as mobile as ever, and his harsh look would melt into a ready laugh as he used his hands to emphasize a point. He appeared to be enjoying life, and if he felt under any strain it was not apparent. He wore dazzling white flannel slacks and a pale blue sport shirt embroidered with the monogram...