Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of public sympathy for the French view, the U.S. shifted its position. The French, although yielding on their first demand that the Ruhr be lopped from Germany, were pleased with last week's agreement-especially since its terms were expected to be written into a German peace treaty (whenever one becomes possible) and so will remain in force after the occupation armies withdraw...
...Egyptian sea and air raid, which did little damage, looked like a grandstand act to save face at home. On the battlefronts in the Negeb desert, the Christmas war was grinding to a halt, and the Jews once more were the victors. In ten days they had driven the last Egyptian from the territory assigned them by the original U.N. partition plan, and occupied almost all the southern desert up to Egypt's border. Only at Gaza and the Faluja pocket were the Egyptians able to hold...
...kids of America, the most familiar face in public life is the craggy jaw of Dick Tracy, identified by 97% of the moppets who were interviewed by the Ladies' Home Journal. Bing Crosby was spotted by 95%, while 93% recognized Harry Truman...
...giving the special treatment to 200 patients, and other VA hospitals have adopted the treatment. One of the wrinkles added by the Bedford (Mass.) Hospital: a three-paneled mirror. It helps patients who slump along with bent head and shoulders to straighten up, look the world in the face...
When he finally reached the mountain he sought, Frye had to climb 50 feet up the wall of a cliff to get at the inscription. Clinging to the face of the mountain, he and two native companions took impressions of the stone-writing with squeeze-paper...