Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving Harry Truman's office last week, the Administration's congressional leaders stood in a little cluster, wearing the aggressively confident expressions that politicians put on when they face a pack of reporters. They let Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas do most of the talking. Recently returned to duty after a long bout with his stomach ulcers, he was a tailor's symphony in brown, and eager to make news. Congress, he said, could adjourn by July 31 or early August at the latest. The implication was clear: Harry Truman had decided not to press...
...face of such rumors, it is only surprising that the young graduate students and faculty members at Yale are no more nervous than they seem...
Joan had been brought up and had gone through high school as a girl; she had taken a secretarial course as a girl. But she knew that something was wrong. Menstruation had not started at the usual time. After puberty, hair had begun to grow on her face, and she had to shave every day. She used cosmetics to hide the stubble on her cheeks, and wore falsies to build out her flat chest. She had few dates with...
...subject think of all this? Said well-pleased Poet Eliot: "There is a good deal to be said for sticking to the same doctor . . . There is the same reason for sticking to the same painter-if he is a good painter; he knows the history of one's face as well as the expression assumed for the sitting-an expression which is sometimes a defensive or bogus one when exposed to the sustained scrutiny of an unfamiliar pair of eyes on the other side of the easel...
Painter Lewis' own face, added Eliot, "is worth watching. Wearing a look of slightly quizzical inscrutability . . . behind which one suspects his mental muscles may be contracting for some unexpected pounce, he makes one feel that it would be undesirable, though not actually dangerous, to fall asleep in one's chair...