Word: facing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though he wore a handkerchief mask over the lower part of his face, the tall man in mirror-type sunglasses seemed to show a workmanly patience at his job. For more than an hour one dark morning last week, he painstakingly measured out puddles of gasoline in each of the five dining rooms of Allgauer's Fireside restaurant in Lincolnwood, a suburb northwest of Chicago. While a stubby accomplice leveled an automatic at seven late workers and busboys, he methodically laid fuses of gasoline-soaked toilet paper from pool to pool. When, at 3:45 a.m.. things were...
Last December old (70) Dennis Chavez' stock had sunk so low that many a county Democratic chairman was looking for a bright new face to replace him. Supporters of former Democratic Governor John Simms Jr. blamed Chavez for Simms's 1956 defeat, distributed cards: "Give Dennis the Gate in '58." In his hour of grimmest need wily Dennis Chavez turned to an issue that many a Congressman before him has exploited, but never quite so blatantly...
...Paris: "Use your clubs! Use your clubs!" His men complied. In the Place de la Concorde a mob of 6,000 right-wingers led by burly ex-Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen -sporting the tricolor sash of a Deputy and the green beret of his old paratroop regiment -came face to face with rifle-toting police drawn up in columns four deep. For a time the mob hesitated. Then, with cries of "Algeria is French!" and "Throw the Deputies into the Seine!", the rightists made a wild rush for the Concorde bridge leading to the National Assembly. In minutes, they...
...stared at him for a moment and said, "It may reduce drag, but without the windshield dirt flies about my face and hands. The windshield remains where it is." Vag finished taping on the number...
Latin American students take an active part in the political life of their nation, McGann said. They are both more progressively oriented and more anti-American than the population of these countries as a whole. Student Federations have been active in opposing dictatorial regimes, often in the face of harsh brutality by the government...