Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most suggestive anecdote about Canales's talent is his able handling of a situation he faced as a senior on his high school swim team. Canales explained, "The team had no coach as the season approached, and the school did not have time to select one, so since...
Echeverria did little to alleviate the political crisis. Widespread rumors that the President was planning a coup to stay in power were faced by an unexpected, and hardly reassuring, display of power. In November, charging that large landholdings were unconstitutional, he ordered the expropriation of 243,000 acres in the...
The San Francisco police department began hostage-negotiating courses in 1974. Since then its graduates have faced 15 major hostage incidents-and saved all the victims without firing a shot. The emphasis in the program is on psychology; the key rule is to stay cool. About 75% of the officers...
Faced with executive ennui, Eagleson had to work with desperate speed. If the Barons folded, at least ten players would be thrown out of work and certain games would be canceled. No disaster. Other troubled hockey teams, like the Pittsburgh Penguins, might also be seduced toward bankruptcy. No delight. Finally...
One hot June evening 51 years ago, a scared young man named Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones stepped off the train at Grumbling, a tiny community in the pine woods of northern Louisiana. At 19, newly graduated from Southern University near Baton Rouge, he faced a formidable mission: to teach biology...