Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a thrilling experience to face the Russians on ice," Cleary said yesterday, commenting on his squad's recent game with the powerful U.S.S.R. six. "The Soviets are serious precisionists, but the National squad hasn't lost hope for the world championship, no matter what happens to Harvard and the other college teams confronting the Russians...
Darkness at Noon has faded as a piece of realism because Koestler's portrait of the Neantherthal second-generation Communist has been grossly exaggerated and laughed out of existence. Clumping about his metallic office in his black boots, blowing cigar smoke in the face of his victims, cheaply adjusting theory to exigency and blindly following his vision of the party line-- he is the subject of a thousand Western caricatures. With Sputniks today whizzing about the head of Apollo, it's difficult to accept the proposition that the Soviet Union is administered by men who believe the charm...
Higginbottom scored the varsity's first goal only 38 seconds after the opening face-off, receiving a pass from Mike Graney and banking in a shot off Jumbo goalie Kenny Tondreau's pads. When Fischer scored, less than a minute later, it seemed a massacre was in the making, but the referee called the tally back, ruling that a Crimson player was in the Tufts crease...
...some cynics among us might lead themselves to the conclusion that once again they invite self-sacrifice by the purchase of such periodicals. Today this is not so, and I report with pleasure that the wounded soul of adolescent concern has expired, its pimpled face stiffened in silence, its deep and brooding eyes closed in exhaustion, its restless shell retired to the Hayes-Bickford corner it deserves so well...
...tonight's game, the Crimson will face a team which features a 6 ft., 8 in pivot man who can score as well as rebound. He is captain Al Poulsen, who is averaging 13 points a game and who last year ranked fourth in the league in rebounding...