Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed simply a problem of lashing shell fire, the stutter of machine guns, a man named Hitler and a man named Tojo. This June, children played on the half-buried landing craft. But peace seemed more elusive and infinitely more baffling, a matter of hard-held purpose in the face of provocation, hard-built strength in the face of shadowy threat...
Feeling at length the effects of fatigue, he determined to stretch out in a friend's room for the night rather than face the beery atmosphere of his own domicile. But upon emerging from a shower, he discovered that his traitorous friend had relieved him of all clothing. He had nothing on but the radio...
Robert Salau of the Seventh Day Adventist Church arrived in New York City last week for his first look at a strange land; Pastor Salau is a missionary among his own people of the Solomon Islands. Above his grave, calm face his hair stood straight up in a shock of black fuzz; he was dressed in a blue tweed jacket and blue woolen skirt with red belt, black oxfords and black, knee-length stockings. He was not prepared for the reporters and photographers who found him aboard the liner Mauretania, on a trip that is taking him around the world...
...step was springy and he mounted his throne with more than usual vigor. To thin, 87-year-old Msgr. Alfonso Carinci, Deacon of Protonotaries, he handed a brilliantly illuminated parchment manuscript-the papal bull* which proclaimed 1950 a Holy Year of pilgrimage to Rome. Then, with his face almost constantly lighted by smiles, he spoke to the mauve-robed Apostolic Protonotaries assembled before him, in the most optimistic terms he had used since before...
This week U.S. youngsters, most of whom sooner or later have to face the problems of acne's unsightly pimples and blackheads, could find helpful advice in the first book on the subject for laymen readers. Challenging wild-eyed advertisements and "sure cures," Dr. Herbert Lawrence, San Francisco dermatologist, discusses acne simply and thoroughly in The Skin Problem Facing Young Men and Women (Timely Publications...