Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ferraro's reception in Scranton, Pa., an area in which roughly one-third of the population is Catholic and the pro-life movement is strong, was far less gentle. Worried about possible violence, Scranton police substituted plainclothes officers for volunteer drivers in the Ferraro motorcade, and a state police...
Mondale, too, faced the boos of antiabortionists in a high school gym in Tupelo, Miss. Outside the school, black youths who favor Mondale and white students from a segregated Baptist academy got into angry shoving matches. Mondale got a helpful introduction from Tupelo Mayor James Caldwell, who said of him...
The pact was in doubt right up to the final minute. Peres, who had until Sept. 16 to form a government, faced growing opposition within his own ranks. Seven Knesset allies, including the tiny leftist party, Mapam, refused to link themselves with their longtime ideological foes in Likud and withdrew...
Wiping flowing tears from his cheeks with a handkerchief, the pastor of Leningrad's lone Baptist church looked down at his packed congregation last week as he welcomed the evening's special preacher. "We know what difficulties you faced in coming here, Billy Graham," said Piotr Konovalchik. "We...
The burly, 6-ft. 5-in. U.A.W. leader, who has faced the tough task of setting his mark on the union since he succeeded the popular and almost legendary Douglas Fraser last year, felt he had little choice but to authorize the selective shutdown.