Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe's President Jordan emphasized the need for a university's untrammeled search for truth in the face of Communism and landed the opportunities of a liberal education in an address given at the First Congregational Church in the exercises marking the formal opening of the college's seventy-first year...
...party reached a shallow ledge on the almost-vertical face of Dent du Geant. While the other three waited below, McNear continued up the face and hammered a thin piton--a metal spike commonly used by mountain-climbers for support--into a crack in the granite rock. Then he fastened his rope to the piton and continued up the wall...
Freshmen and upperclassmen will also face an enlarged work program similar to the cooperative work system in force at Vassar College...
...week of shacking up in the Loch Lomond country, Jerry finds himself desperately in love with Patches, desperately out of love with his "healthily beautiful, loving, young, vigorous, clear-eyed, innocent, sexless and inexperienced" fiancee back on Long Island.To straighten out this situation and break his engagement in a face-to-face encounter, he hops the Atlantic without papers, fails in his mission when his socialite parents beg him to change his mind. But back in England 24 hours later, Jerry sees his WAAF and can't resist taking the plunge anyhow: "Patches, I've found...
...wrinkle in an old face, "The Long Wait" spans the brief interval between an impending automobile collision and the death of one of its occupants. Author Daniel Ellsberg takes his central character through a dreaming flashback and unconquerable optimism before the car hurtles off the road and overturns...