Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weakness. Communist rulers have shown a formidable capacity to impose their rule. But if free men show the good fruits of freedom, the enslavers will always be on the defensive and will face the ultimate collapse of their system...
...normally grumpy face wreathed in smiles after the conference's formal endorsement of prohibitory nuclear tests, a line that the Russians have so long beat their propaganda drums for, Soviet Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin told reporters, "I am optimistic. We have adopted Article i." And how soon would the conference adopt Article 2? "We shall...
...Pole and pop out on top of the world. Leaky, her propellers serrated by chunks of ice, the ship turned back, and a relieved world smiled. But last summer, when the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nautilus followed in his wake and went on to the Pole, Sir Hubert Wilkins' face took on a Cheshire grin...
...Zhivago, none of the major characters are developed much beyond the point of abstraction. Even the doctor exists more as a luminous conscience than a physical presence; all the reader is ever told of his appearance is that he is tall and has "a snub nose and an unremarkable face." As for the novel's structure, it is like an endless railway journey in which the reader sometimes waits yawningly for the next station of the plot. Yet these defects mask virtues. Coincidence is the logic of destiny, and Dr. Zhivago has a strong sense of his destiny...
Once, during the abortive 1905 revolution, almost as a prank, young Boris rushed out to display "my tuppeny-ha'penny revolutionism which went no further than bravado in the face of a Cossack whip and its blow on the back of a padded coat." He studied law briefly at Moscow, then enrolled as a philosophy major in Germany's University of Marburg under a pudgy intellectual martinet, Professor Hermann Cohen, a disciple of Hegel and Kant. In the Gothic-fairy-tale mountain town of Marburg, with its steeply sloping streets and medieval gables, his first serious love came...