Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just after dawn last Friday, 800 American soldiers, their faces stained brown and green with camouflage paint, parachuted onto a dry cow pasture in central Honduras. The 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers formed a defensive ^ perimeter, crouching in combat positions. But instead of an enemy force, they faced an army of...
Back in 1981, the executive director of the NAACP, Benjamin Hooks, warned Blacks to brace themselves for hard times similar to those faced during Reconstruction, saying that Reagan "could end up putting Black folks in a worse position than if a racist were in the White House." This has turned...
Most Harvard students, faced with the inaccessibility of the senior faculty, either give up on intellectual life in the classroom or find a graduate student or junior professor who is both full of ideas and actually interested in helping them learn. For us, Allen Steinberg has been that person.
All these dangers exist; and until recent weeks the ensuing unspoken policy has been for Americans to keep as stony-faced as palace guards whenever Israel does something that we do not like. Either that, or to blurt out some whiny silliness as Woody Allen did on the New York...
Signs of severe economic pain grew more evident last week. Fearing a run on deposits, Panama's 120 banks remained closed. Thousands of retirees, unable to cash their social-security checks, blocked traffic and angrily waved their pay slips in the air. The government cashed the checks the next day...