Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nagy and Maleter might have been quietly executed within a few weeks or months of their seizure, as hundreds of lesser known Hungarian rebels were. But the Russians waited for 18 months and then brutally proclaimed their deed, giving the executions the deliberate quality of a slap in the face to the non-Communist world and of a mighty fist thrust in the faces of the satellites...
Like most slaps in the face, this one promised to create difficulties for the slapper. It calculatedly opened the breach wider between Russia and Yugoslavia than it had been since the Cominform excommunication of Tito in 1948. It all but destroyed prospects for an early summit meeting. (Even De Gaulle, perhaps the most willing of all Western leaders to talk with Russia, declared that he now saw little chance of a summit meeting this year.) All these were consequences that calculating Nikita Khrushchev obviously foresaw when he passed the death sentence on Nagy and Maleter, and chose to proclaim...
...rekindle the flame at the tomb of France's unknown soldier. Then, re-entering his car, he moved on across the Seine to Mont Valérien, a historic fort that overlooks a tiny, sandy valley where 4,000 Frenchmen were executed during the Nazi occupation. His face working with emotion, De Gaulle relit the flame of the resistance, prayed for a few moments at the tomb of the 16 resistance heroes buried in the fort. When at last the defiant strains of the Marseillaise rolled out over the valley, there was unabashed weeping in the crowd...
...made to appear before his assembled people in full regalia, and as he sits upon his stool, it is yanked out from under him. As he lies sprawled on the ground, a tribesman tears off one of the chief's sandals and slaps him smartly in the face with it-as token of his disgrace for life...
...Face of Prejudice. In the current script, Town's locale was moved to "a small Southwestern town in the 1870s." Emmett Till became a romantic Mexican youth who loved the storekeeper's wife, but only "with his eyes." Throughout the 120-page script, network and sponsors (which include Allstate Insurance, American Gas & Electric, Bristol-Myers, Kimberly-Clark, Pillsbury Mills, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco) suggested changes. An earlier lynch victim was named Clemson; this was changed because South Carolina has an all-white college of that name. The ad agency for Allstate Insurance vetoed a suicide in the story...