Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face aglow, he rose to offer a plausible-sounding amendment to the housing bill which would provide federal funds to help erect 810,000 low-rent housing units within the next six years. Bricker wanted a provision forbidding discrimination or segregation of races in any public housing project. Cried Bricker: "There has been a great deal of shadowboxing in the Congress in the attempt to place responsibility for the failure of the civil rights program. This is the one chance we will likely have to vote on this question during the present session...
Senators had wanted to know the size of the bill before buying the Atlantic pact itself. Now that the tab was face up, Congress was more relieved than alarmed. Even Georgia's closefisted Democrat Walter F. George, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, seemed ready to go along...
Clay and Murphy hope that the constitution for the "Federal Republic of Germany" will go to the eleven West German states for ratification by May 15. In the face of Russian maneuvers, the Western Allies and the Western Germans at last presented a united front...
...jayvee and freshman heavies will probably face stiffer opposition than their varsity counterparts, as MIT game both crews a stiff battle last week. Both Crimson beats have undergone lineup changes since last Saturday: John Merrick will replace the injured Ham Fish in the jayvees, while two new men, Marty Webb and Doug Fletcher will fill the bow and two slots in the freshman boat...
Finally, the CRIMSON came to bat in the last half of the ninth inning: the evening shadows were lengthening in the sun now turned orange. The first man to the bat was the inspirational leader of the CRIMSON nine, Pompous Prexy Pratt, his face fiushed in the Cadmium sun. He reached first on a walk...