Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rayburn just let things simmer, then last week he allowed the senior insurgent, California's eight-term Chet Holifield, to enter his office and raise the rules question. Then he gave the answer: No. With little more than the whimper of a face-saving press release, the Democratic revolt curled up and died...
Neville Chamberlain: "Always struck me as a rather cold fish. I mean he had a look on his face-a sneer. I don't know whether it was intended...
...ruling Maharajah, 65-year-old Sir Tashi Namgyal, is the eleventh in a line of consecrated Lama rulers. He leaves politics to others. A shy, untraveled man with a pinched face and faint mustache, a delicate porcelain figurine who goes about in green-tinted glasses, Tibetan cap and a golden bakkhu (robe), the Maharajah paints Sikkim's misty peaks and glaciers in a surprisingly abstract style. Recently he had a "vision" of the Abominable Snowman, put him on canvas as a skinny, jet-black creature with a red face, carrying a naked pink lady across the peaks...
...Cornell wrestlers are favorites in the Ivy race, and the score, 15 to 9, indicated that the varsity matmen have strong potential. Their match at Lancaster, Pa., tomorrow night against Franklin and Marshall, a renowned wrestling school, is a "test" for them. The Crimson did not face Franklin and Marshall last year. Former captain Bob Foster in the 177-lb. class pulled an upset in the Cornell match, and will be a Harvard standout this season. Captain John Noble at 157, and 137-pounder John Watkins were the other winners in the last contest, and should be favorites tomorrow...
Although ordinarily undaunted in the face of strikes, suspensions, and minor acts of God, the CRIMSON will cease Saturday publication for the remainder of the month...