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Word: facing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Face. There were, he continued, three uncontradicted facts: 1) that Chambers had in his possession copies of secret State Department documents; 2) that these documents were all dated in the first three months of 1938; 3) that all but one of the typed documents were copied on the Hiss typewriter. With all "that country bumpkin stuff," the defense attorney had refuted none of these points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Weeds, Roses & Jam | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...suppose one of your children is apprehended in the kitchen with jam on his face," said Murphy. "We don't have to get a stomach pump to find out if he's been eating jam. We have the jam on his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Weeds, Roses & Jam | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...traitor. Another Benedict Arnold. Another Judas Iscariot. Another Judge Manton, who was in high places and was convicted right here in this building . . .* Someone has said that roses that fester stink worse than weeds. A brilliant man like this man, who betrays his trust, stinks. Inside that smiling face is a heart black and cancerous. He is a traitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Weeds, Roses & Jam | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...human sweeps to climb the flues, but it was 1819 before a reform act passed the House of Commons. The House of Lords killed it with the admonition of one peer "to leave reforms of this kind ... to the moral feeling of perhaps the most moral people on the face of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Blots | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...granted a divorce after charging that his wife hit him with a milk bottle, smashed a tumbler on his head, knocked out one of his teeth with a plate, battered him with a shovel, yanked him downstairs by one leg, scratched him, pushed a lighted cigarette in his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 11, 1949 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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