Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign as a sort of front man for Dewey's own strategy board (after the election, he not only admitted this fact, but advertised it). When the Dewey strategists vanished from sight, Chairman Scott was still standing there, pipe in hand, a patient smile on his face, and looking as if this was nothing compared to what he had seen out in the Pacific during...
Attlee came as close as he ever does to flourishing his fist in the enemy's face. Said he in answer to the Tories' meeting 170 miles to the south at Wolverhampton...
...heat in tiny, suffocating Chamber 13 of the Palais de Justice matted the 46-year-old defendant's white mane, wreathed his wrinkled face in perspiration. Four years after the war, the narrative of Nazi evil retold in the courtroom roused no passion, fell back into forgetfulness. During his deft defense, Abetz mechanically professed Nazi theory, just as mechanically pleaded that he had always tried to mitigate Nazi practice. The sentence: 20 years at hard labor...
...strength of Mr. Churchill's language is in inverse ratio to his knowledge. It is unfortunate that his words are taken at their face value in other countries. They don't realize that that is just Winnie's way." Attlee was so pleased at this passage that he glanced challengingly at the blazing sun, then set his soft black felt hat on his head and resumed. The Tory platform, he said, was "one of the most dishonest documents I have ever read...
...they had to be recovered at once; the archbishop himself was paying a visit that day. Police Chief Luis Proafio forbade all cars to leave the village, went out to search with Padre Leon. Some miles down the road, they were hailed by a man standing with his face half hidden in a shawl. It was Angel Sanchez, asking for a lift...