Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking's retreat end there. By August of this year, there was no avoiding the most humiliating and face-losing necessity of all: public revision of the inflated 1958 production claims. With only five weeks to go until the tenth anniversary of Communist power in China, Peking was obliged to admit to the world that the big leap had fallen painfully short, and that production goals for 1959 had been sharply reduced (see chart...
...danger was that France might take Abbas' words at face value. In fact, much of what he said was clearly designed to establish a bargaining position, and some of it was equally clearly intended as window dressing to make the idea of a possible cease-fire palatable to extremist anti-French forces within the rebel ranks. The essential point was that for the first time since the fighting began the rebels had tacitly agreed to abide by the verdict of a peaceful Algerian referendum...
...copper wire cloth (mosquito screening) with a layer of Fiberglas (in the form of Filter-down) in between. This filter, developed for the Atomic Energy Commission, contains no holes more than half as big as staphylococci, thus blocks their passage completely. Since the mask is molded snugly to the face, many surgeons fear that it will hinder their breathing. Not so, said Dr. Adams: it is as easy to breathe through as properly placed gauze, and it keeps spectacles from steaming. The filter costs $3, can be used and sterilized daily for six months or more...
...order" on D-day ("Desert!") was as funny as anything seen on TV. On his first of eight monthly shows this year, Carney was badly hampered by some dreadful jokes and a couple of high-school-level musical numbers. But in the skits he triumphed with his marvelously mobile face, his adaptable voice (he started in radio 17 years ago on a serious news show, impersonating Churchill and F.D.R.) and the conscientiousness about being funny that marks a major clown...
Sapphire (Rank; Universal-International) is a semiprecious British attempt to admix a sociological problem drama with a flat-out murder mystery. The jewel of the title is a beautiful, auburn-haired girl; as the film begins, she is found lying face up on the hard ground of Hampstead Heath with six knife wounds around her heart...