Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Resignation. Benson turned on a TV set, watched calmly as Morton, on Face the Nation, declared that the Republican Party has to face the "political fact" of Benson's unpopularity in the farm belt...
...Chairman Morton, though privately gloomy about Benson's decision to stay on, did a public turnabout from Black Sunday, urged fellow Republicans to "sell" Benson in the farm belt, not sell him out. When Benson heard that news, an austere but unmistakable smile of victory spread across his face...
...perching on her chair with a kind of prim furor, and refusing to eat. With only the exhausted movement of hip or hand, Annie expresses the depths of her combined determination and despair. She is reduced to a disheveled wreck, chest heaving, shoulders slumped, slovenly hair sloping across her face...
Archbishop Iakovos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America, lined up with the Roman Catholics. As he sees it, the argument in favor of birth control is based on the secular notion that society "must forever banish from the face of the earth hunger, misfortune, juvenile crime, social revolution and wars-since all these are a consequence of overpopulation." Said the archbishop: "This argument may be correct, but it is entirely negative." Childbirth, he added, is a "duty binding on all-not to avoid children, but to care for them in the nurture and admonition...
PHONY TV ADVERTISING will come under closer watch by the FTC and the Justice Department. They have agreed to tighten prosecution against deceptive commercials in the food, drug and cosmetic fields. Convicted advertisers would face criminal penalties of up to $5,000 and six months in jail for a first offense. Second offenders would face a year in jail and a $10,000 fine...