Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defended its actions in the United Nations Security Council, in the face of considerable general disapproval of the troop movements; then, after a Russian veto in the Council, proposed to go to the General Assembly, if necessary, to get the U.N. to take over the job of safeguarding Lebanon and Jordan...
...made his way across frozen snowdrifts in a horse and buggy to keep his preaching schedule at five different churches in and around Hawley, Minn. In the winter and spring of 1958, the minister's son, Presidential Assistant Gabriel Hauge, showed the same old-fashioned fortitude in the face of icy winds of another kind. With the U.S. economy slipping downward, panicky cries for drastic federal intervention rang out in Washington and across the U.S. But calm, articulate Gabriel Hauge, sometime economics teacher at Princeton and Harvard, economics assistant to the President of the U.S. since the start...
...case itself was pockmarked with the legalisms in which the U.N. delights. Before the Iraqi coup, the U.S. had been determined to stay out of Lebanon, even greeted with relief the findings of the U.N. observers and the possibility of some domestic compromise.* Now, in the face of U.N. reports that no conclusive evidence existed of massive outside infiltration, the marines had landed...
Shrewd, poker-faced Arkady Sobolev of the Soviet Union blustered that the whole U.S. position was "insolvent" on the face of it. The troop landings, he pointed out, had come not as the result of anything that happened inside Lebanon, but were triggered by the coup in Iraq. The U.S. action, therefore, was a "gross intervention into the domestic affairs of the states in this area." Sobolev demanded the immediate withdrawal of the marines...
...delegates from six countries at the National Catholic Family Life Convention in Buffalo. The Rev. Lucius F. Cervantes, Jesuit sociologist at Denver's Regis College, blamed the American obsession with romantic love. "The American secular image of marriage and the family is schizoid in its romantic inability to face reality. Prudential consideration in the seeking of one's life partner, such as the desirability of similar backgrounds, interests and ideals, seems to these teenagers a mere censorious haggling of killjoy elders and the unromantic benighted drudges of society. The typical teen-ager's byword today...