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Word: face (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both Harvard games this weekend, the Crimson pumped to early leads and then held on in face of late surges by the opposition. Senior Bob Dorwart came in for relief appearances in both games, winning the first and saving the other victory for Bob Kalinoski...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Whips Indians, Yale, But Fails in Playoff Bid | 5/19/1969 | See Source »

...holes by a hard-eyed generation of frontier historians. To hear the debunkers tell it, the fastest guns in the West were for the most part dirty, drunken, vicious, stupid, syphilitic delinquents who seldom drew anything more dangerous than a one-eyed jack, and hardly had the cojones to face a tranquilized prairie dog in a fair fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bums or Bunyans | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

Shots of the two men trudging across the snow, flooded with light, are followed by shots of them inching up a rock face. When they finally reach the top, the officer collapses, exhausted. The other, picking up his coat, discovers a letter written to the officer by a woman. The husband asks him if it comes from his wife; on the officer's insolent reply, be attacks him. The entire scene atop the peak, like the preceding climbing scenes, has the characters standing on rock against an entirely white horizon. The screen has been stripped down...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: Blind Husbands | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...Saturday, Yale will have to face fast ball specialist Bob Kalinoski. Kalinoski has been the surprise of the season, compiling a team-leading 1.27 ERA and allowing just 20 hits in 30 innings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Nine Confident of Victory Over Undefeated Indians, Bulldogs | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...them had never seen. Many of the men were simply drifters whose luck had run out in Fairbanks and who wanted to earn enough money for the next month's grubstake. The government clerks passed any high school kid who could lie about his age with a straight face and any drunk who could look sober enough for a three-minute interview. The recruits then piled into two buses and drove off to a smoke-jumper base...

Author: By Mark W. Oberle, | Title: Why Not Let the Forests Burn? | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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