Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble was, as the judge later said of Lieut. Commander Thomas Graeme Ridgeway, that "he might be brave in the face of the enemy, but he was not a hero when it came to facing a woman...
...more menacing face which French Communism was showing to France and the world had been assumed on orders from Moscow which were transmitted to the French Communist Party through a minor employee in the Czech embassy.† Last week s statements were framed by the party's Political Control Commission, a body formed some months ago after Rumania's Pauker and Bulgaria's Dimitrov had castigated the French comrades, at a Cominform meeting, for "bourgeois tendencies." The commission has become the most powerful organ in the French apparatus, outranking the Central Committee and even its Politburo. Maurice...
TIME'S Paris Bureau Head Andre La-guerre cabled: "The Communists are being smoked out. There are 99 chances in 100 that France will have to face and solve her Communist problem before the free world can solve its bigger problem...
...which stared out of its case with the composed dignity that its important place in Egyptian society had justified; a mummy of the same breed (one of thousands of such embalmed animals found in the Nile Valley), bound into a thin, dusty cylinder with only the ears and sunken face visible; a 15th Century specimen crouched and grinning above a terse warning: "Beware of cats, which lick in front and scratch behind...
...bronchitis with penicillin. One day a nurse gave her a routine injection of 50,000 units. Within a few seconds the patient complained of a strange taste in her mouth, and of swelling and tightness in her throat and nose. She itched all over, and turned blue in the face. Then, as she was asking for a glass of water, she collapsed and died...