Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obscenity and got socked squarely in the eye for his unfriendly inscription. The story grew hazier from then on, but most agreed that Mitchum had poured a smoky slug of Irish whisky over somebody else's head, butted his new adversary on the jaw, got kicked in the face in reply. Next morning Pugilist Mitchum turned up for moviemaking with a cut nose, fast-blackening eye, aching jaw and a wry admission that "he certainly hurt...
Burns over Bone. Behind the wheels in crash helmets were the drivers, a peculiar breed willing to pay the price for loving danger. There was Bill Stead, 34, a Nevada rancher with a cowpoke's windburned face, whose legs and arms bear unhealed burns as souvenirs of a wild ride last March when his Maverick blew up at 175 m.p.h. on Lake Mead. Stead had coolly stuck to the boat: "Burns hurt a little more, but I'd rather have them than broken bones, and I've had both...
...Arkansas governed by a nervous demagogue. Little Rock's moderate school board prepared to face the consequences of obeying the integration laws of the land. With canny suddenness, the board ordered high schools opened this week-nearly a month ahead of schedule. Announced reason: the 2,500 students, including six Negroes newly assigned to Central and Hall high schools (compared to the embattled nine at Central in 1957), will need judicious counseling before classes start...
...school board pondered where and how to place the Raney children. But another segregationist move was easier to check. Seizing on the city's high incidence of polio this year (21 cases, three deaths), the segregationist Citizens' Council loudly denounced the board for opening schools "in the face of a polio epidemic.'' In short order, the board got a signed statement from 35 Little Rock physicians that set things straight. Said the doctors: the polio is centered in preschool children; teenagers are safer in the relative quiet of high school...
...only private, nonsubsidized air fleet in the world, U.S. carriers must find a better way to face competition if the U.S. is to keep its place as a powerful air nation. The most obvious solution would be Government subsidy, but most airlines themselves admit that this is a last resort. What they want is for the U.S. to show a tougher stand in route bargaining and in enforcing current agreements. In the next five years the jets will force a revamping of virtually all of the 54 bilateral agreements between the U.S. and other nations. Unless the U.S. trades much...