Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitch of French cuisine is canard faisandé-duck that has been hung a long time, so you can smell the bouquet. Very enjoyable to the educated nose. But if you offer it to the workers they will throw the rotten duck out, unless they throw it in your face. Now . . . the kitchen of the high bourgeoisie will make the proletarian vomit, and the paintings of the high bourgeoisie will make him vomit too-though this is nothing against the duck, or against modern...
...stone-cold, the rooms coil upon each other in a snakelike labyrinth. In the ceilings are white stone mosaics different from anything Rivera has done before-deceptively simple abstractions that seem to waver, cloudlike, on the edge of recognizability. One of them, representing Tlaloc the rain god, is a face formed of two writhing snakes, set so as to be reflected in a sunken pool. The tower of the god of air is so designed that a chill draft eddies through it on the stillest days...
...face of the U.S. surplus, the U.S. share of exports under the pact (168 million bu.) was comparatively small, though the cost to the U.S. might prove large. As long as wheat support prices are higher than the pact price, the Federal Government would have to pay the difference. In effect, it would subsidize the exports. Furthermore, importing nations would be required to take their maximum quotas under the agreement only when the price fell to the minimum. As long as the price was above that, they could buy from Russia or Argentina, if those nations wanted to undersell...
When American Woolen Co.'s President Moses Pendleton rose before his stockholders in Springfield, Mass, last week, he was wearing such a long face that the stockholders braced themselves for bad news. It came fast enough. The company's new orders, Pendleton reported, had sagged by mid-March to $11 million, less than one-sixth their 1948 level. As the news reached Wall Street, a wave of selling dropped American Woolen's stock 6⅛ points to 28⅝, the lowest since...
...wonder that, years later, Shaw was to find his niche in the Fabian Society -"a minority of cultural snobs" who, he says, standing haughtily apart from the English proletariat, permeated the governing class and helped utterly to change the face of Britain...