Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cavanaugh, freshman second baseman last year from Roxbury Latin, is the only new face in the infield. Dunn started the 1948 season with the varsity, was moved down to the jayvees, and then was promoted again in time to play in the Yale game. Maunino played short-stop until he was injured midway in the season. Cavanaugh replaces Myles Huntington, out for the season with a broken collar bone. Coulson has lost about 20 pounds since last season and will be a vastly improved fielder...
Jimmy loves the satsy shafts and wheels of the mechanism. His face glows when he talks about...
Shears & Shorts. When the newsreels came back, Truman aides trimmed out 21 feet (showing the Winter White House and a nearby naval installation), and Ross's face was saved, technically at least. They released all the informal beach scenes that Ross had wanted to suppress. Later the President did his best to bail out Ross. Jokingly, he told newsmen that "the Boss" (Mrs. Truman) had warned him: "Don't you have any pictures taken of you in a bathing suit. One slipped by at Bermuda [in 1946] and it's been a disgrace to the family ever...
...novel, Mother Danforth's mind wanders wayward through the past, remembering all that a reader must know to understand what is to come, but also remembering such things as a day when she was a little girl, lying in the grass: "The heat waved over tier hands and face and the air rippled all around her in little rings and circulations of summer tunes. She put out a finger to deflect an emerald beetle climbing a blade of grass and watched it spread its pretty double wings and fly away; there was a long procession of ants running toward...
Watch the North Wind Rise is no great shakes either as a novel or a sociological essay. But it manages to stand up-and to stand out-as another rich expression of Robert Graves's fantastical mind. To laugh in the face of his Goddess is only natural; but without this pure yet beastly muse Graves would probably not be what he emphatically is-one of the finest poets of the Late Christian Epoch...