Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin also in Switzerland for a rest cure, Prime Minister Clement Attlee was left alone to face Britain's mounting economic crisis. By the beginning of August, world confidence in the pound had fallen dangerously. Attlee sent Board of Trade President Harold Wilson to Switzerland to consult with Bevin and Cripps. Attlee felt a decision could no longer be postponed. Cripps was still against devaluation...
...last week in a Quebec City courtroom, a prisoner looked straight ahead, his face expressionless. The prisoner: Albert Guay. The charge: "Having Sept. 9 at Sault au Cochon killed and assassinated . . . your wife...
...usual, she appeared from behind the pale green curtains dressed in a simple short black frock ("It is my uniform -I am soldier"), her dark brown hair frumpily frizzled, her gaminish face almost bare of makeup. (Says Piaf: "I don't like my appearance to distract . . .") Then, announcing her own numbers in newly learned English, like a ten-year-old reciting Longfellow, she packed them all off to Paree...
...four-even Soprano Alda-aped Basso Segurola by wearing monocles.When Segurola put on his top hat, he was showered with white dust: Caruso had thoughtfully poured flour into it. Baritone Scotti squirted seltzer water in Alda's face. Instead of nibbling at stage fare in the cafe scene of Act II, they sat down with relish to a chicken dinner-and more champagne -ordered in from an Italian restaurant...
When Burl Ives finished the program at Symphony Hall Saturday night he turned toward the stage door, suddenly made an "on hell," gesture and returned to face the thunderous applause. "I have received a great many requests tonight," he said, "and I see no point in my going clear out that door and back again every time...