Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gingerbread Jewel Box. "I cannot tell, I cannot decide," a Western official in Cologne told me, "whether this Germany has two faces-or no face...
...TIME aimed a sneak punch at Democratic President Truman which landed plump on the good-womanly face of Hostess Perle Mesta. Shame on TIME...
...hundred-odd spectators watched. Six lawyers for the defense hunched over their tables, facing the bench. Judge Medina began to rock, holding his hand to his face. McGohey rose to outline the Government's case to the jury of twelve and its four alternate members...
Prisoner Strong was examined by a woman doctor, then locked in a solitary cell with a peephole through which guards could watch her. A bright light glared down in her face. "All night between snatches of sleep, I faced my sins." Why was she there? Her best guesses: 1) she had annoyed somebody by trying to get to China via the "closed" Manchurian frontier; 2) it was a "stupidity of some department eager to make a record...
...governor of Minnesota spoke in defense of the "natural rights of man" in the face of threats of "rule by force." He called for a "MacArthur Plan in Asia" to provide at least a billion dollars a year to aid the fight against Communism. He also asked the West to wage "the contest for the minds of men" with a "continuous, widespread, and dramatic program of printed messages from free men to all mankind...