Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall make me lose face," explained the dragon. "Halvud students write Stalag 38, write O.K. Collal, write Yankee Go Home...
...records. Wallace refused, instead turned them over to county grand juries he had hurriedly called. (The grand juries, in turn, later bowed before the Johnson order to make the records available to the Civil Rights Commission.) "I have no apologies for any action," Wallace said. "I am ready to face any consequences I may have to bear...
...nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser nears the nadir of its nebulous naughtiness, forcing the great powers to consider, with great searching of souls and scratching of navels, the threat, the portentous horror, indeed, the phantasmagorical folly of appeasement, of a Munich, if you please, in the face of great decisions which may determine the future of the entire Arabian peninsula, perhaps of the whole Western World, centering in arid Iraq, cradle of civilization, womb of nationalism, cocoon of Communism's conspiratorial caprices, where the stupendous clash of incompatible ideologies generates a maelstrom of incredible tautological complexity which, if only...
...relief to Mail editors. They had touted the balloon flight as the Kon-Tiki voyage of the air, then began to downplay it when the balloon Small World was unreported for three weeks. When reports of the voyage's success reached London, the Mail changed its type face, said Small World's success was "certainly anticipated," roared "we take responsibility for it." In Barbados Mail reporters took command. The Mail had bought all but American rights to the story...
...many of his lines-"Death! Ha! Whan eet come, speet een eets eye." Actress Bloom intrudes a British note, and Actor Heston, as a sweet-talking, milk-sopping Old Hickory with a phony Tennessee accent, makes just about the silliest of the screen's counterfeits of the face on the $20 bill. And Actor Brynner does little more than bound about parapets-probably on the theory that a man who has produced a head of hair should not also be called upon to produce a performance...