Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev (flushed, wagging a finger near Nixon's face): We too are giants. If you want to threaten, we will answer threat with threat...
...good wine," he said. Then he raised his glass and proposed a toast: "To the elimination of all military bases on foreign lands." Milton Eisenhower, who had not quite heard the translation, almost drank but stopped the goblet at his lips. The smile stayed on Nixon's face, but he did not raise his glass. "I am for peace," he said...
Berlin. In the event of a Red blockade of Berlin, the U.S. would face a poor tactical position. Destruction of bridges, railways and roads could block overland supplies, and radar jamming could make mass airlifts difficult. Berlin's biggest need would be the raw materials on which its new industrial prosperity is based. The city gets much of this from East Germany itself, and the President fears that the West might not be able to fill the demand if normal supplies were...
...proposal for a nuclear-free "Baltic zone of peace," an odd notion for him to peddle, since Russia alone of the Baltic powers has nuclear weapons. Obviously he would not get far with it, and was in no mood to expose himself to so well publicized a loss of face. Besides, he said, the Scandinavian governments had encouraged press and public criticism of his visit. "If they spit in my face," he snapped, "why should...
...return to the aim of art in ages past; he is portraying the raw thing-not mere elegance or mere social concepts either. He is totally unconcerned with what kind of figure he cuts in the arena. His qualities are personal, and they come out of suffering. A face is only interesting when it reveals that it has experienced something, that it has been shaped by life and love. So with a painting. If it reveals only a chic, decorative exuberance, or only taste and elegance, its interest will be ephemeral...