Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later appeared as the angel behind a syndicate trying to buy Fox out of the staggering Post. Fox, certainly at least as much through his own behavior and his growing reputation as a fabulous deadbeat as through anything Goldfine might have done, found credit doors slammed in his face. The Post folded on Oct. 4, 1956. In his struggles in the net of finances, John Fox has had federal tax liens slapped on his properties, been hauled through Boston's Poor Debtors' Court, been arrested for failure to meet court judgments against him and for failure...
...further exaggerating newspapers' excited stories, spoke of tanks, planes and troops locked in "raging" battle for Lebanon and the whole Arab world. Wherever diplomats drank, voices were heard forecasting that the West was headed for a second Suez, and demanding to know when the West was going to face up to Nasser. U.S. Senator John Kennedy declared that the U.S. stood on the brink of war, while Columnist Joe Alsop cried that another Munich was in the offing. Some argued that it would be madness to send in Western forces to save President Chamoun's regime in Lebanon...
...government claimed. "The Observation Group believes," said his U.N. group's first report from Beirut, "that the progressive implementation of its mandate will contribute greatly to the creation within Lebanon of conditions which will make possible the solution by the Lebanese people themselves of the internal problems which face the country at the present time...
...Boss Palmiro Togliatti, but that he had no chance of becoming Premier. And a vote for the Red-lining-left-wing Socialists was just as clearly a vote for the party's leader, Pietro Nenni. But the Christian Democrats, the nation's biggest party, campaigned with no face except the postered memory of their late great postwar statesman Alcide de Gasperi, and the promise of "progress without adventure" along the established line of the party's pro-Western, middle-road record. It was not until last week, a month after the elections, that the 12.5 million Italians...
Former Labor Minister López Mateos, 48, was hand-picked for his job by the inner circle of P.R.I. politicians, and he has used the campaign mostly as a chance to show his face to the people in all 29 states. Crowds have been well-ordered and speeches safe: "Every Mexican has the right to enjoy the liberty created by our heroes." But in small round-table sessions everywhere he went, wavy-haired López Mateos, a deskman by training, has lined up the loyalty of political leaders who count. Like his predecessor, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, he will...