Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legless Men. When Van Fleet arrived in Athens 15 months ago, the Red rash was still spreading across the pockmarked face of Greece. After the first guerrilla victories, Russia had seen a chance to harass the West with turmoil and terror in Greece and to win a great Mediterranean base for communism. The obedient satellites on Greece's north provided arms and other material aid, sanctuary for hard-pressed guerrillas, hospitals, training bases. Whether they fought voluntarily or under duress, the guerrilla soldiers were Greeks. For Russia it was a cheap try for big stakes. In March...
...fifths of Britain's electorate had voted, that local contests do not necessarily forecast the country's attitude in a national election. Said a railway worker in Streatham: "Yer can't judge by local elections. They vote against you if they don't like yer face...
...elections still were a heavy blow to the Labor Party. Coming on top of the rebellion in Labor's London fortress last month, they furnished impressive evidence that the Tories had found their feet, that the Socialists faced the battle of their lives in the general elections next year. Said Labor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips in sour understatement: "Let us face the facts. [The] results are disappointing...
Only six of the 25 children she studied ever let off emotional steam through the safety valve of temper tantrum. They were "good children" who bottled up their emotions, cracked up later when they were about to finish school and face the world. Vienna-trained Dr. Tietze did not live to see her report published; on May 7, she died, at 39, from cancer...
After losing its match with the Harvard Grads Saturday afternoon by the overpowering score of 12 to 1, the freshman tennis team will face Yale this afternoon...