Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face, the existing board schedule presupposes that every undergraduate attends every meal. This fiction is far from the case, as the politburo of the Central Kitchen openly admits in its standing contention that savings on missed breakfasts permit better main meals. Yet one clear objection can be raised against this compulsory twenty-one meal system: that it is unfair to make students pay for meals they do not attend. Next year's rise in board rates makes this traditional argument even more justifiable...
...Remember," said the first face, "call them braces, not suspenders...
...could never wear one," said the first face, feeling its necktie, "but it might be all right on you, although a gentleman never wears brown--unless it's tweed. I hope he lets us go in together, after he's through with the House Master...
...noted for fecundity. Thurber is an old man. He puts rabbits everywhere. Therefore, the argument runs, fertility has become a fixation with the author, sure evidence of the frustration of age. This line of thought not only does Thurber an injustice, but reflects rampant intellectual cowardice. One must face the rabbit squarely, meet him head-on. The issue cannot be casually side-stepped...
...Chicago-born Actor Bellamy, a veteran of 36 years on stage, screen and television, still has problems to face. Among the leftover projects from his first terms: congressional approval of a tax spread for actors so that fat onetime earnings can be extended to cover lean years; federation with allied theatrical unions...