Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once the Colts got the ball in overtime, Unitas put the game away. He waited until the last second in the face of Giant tackling, hit his receivers with bullet passes, sent Fullback Alan Ameche the final yard for a hair-raising 23-17 victory and the Colts' first N.F.L. title...
...labor-leaning Congress and expecting the worst. At close range, unions appear to be moving into a more powerful position than ever. But some labor leaders are looking at an entirely different side of the picture. Says A.F.L.-C.I.O. Industrial Union Research Director Everett M. Kassalow: Unions face "a crisis of truly historic proportions...
...unparalleled: the first Presidential Unit Citation ever awarded in peacetime. Of highly personal pleasure to Commander Anderson was a private ceremony in which he presented a piece of polar ice, brought back in the Nautilus' freezer, to his old boss, Rickover. The admiral's gaunt face creased into childlike smiles of delight as he examined the memento ("that piece of ice meant more to him than all the rank . . . and fame that have been showered upon him"). In its way, it was a not unfitting symbolic link in man's chain of progress from...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Adapted from Pierre (The Bridge over the River Kwai) Boulle's novel, Face of a Hero should at least prove the novelist's versatility as it switches from the Far East to small-town melodrama in the U.S. South. With Jack Lemmon, James Gregory and Rip Torn...
...periods the U.S. National team, with Army Pvt. Don Cooper of Wrentham in the nets, stood fast in the face of the Russian assault waves. But goals by Igor Dekonskii and Benjamin Aleksandrov within 14 seconds early in the third period broke the game wide open...