Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snake Charmer. The man who stands between Iraq and all-out Communism is a lean, hard-muscled and ascetic professional soldier with a fixed, snaggle-toothed smile. His name Abdul Karim Kassem. On the face of it, Karim Kassem, 44, seems a weak reed on which to rest the free world's hopes. Modest in deportment, moderate in conversation, Kassem is nonetheless inordinately and naively suspicious. (He recently asserted that one section of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad lured Iraqis in with stories that automobiles can be bought there-and then filled them with anti-Kassem talk.) Cursed...
...Resistance Force, the point of no return will have been passed in Iraq. Some pessimistic observers argue that Kassem is already so much a prisoner of the Reds that it is only a matter of time-and not too much time-until that point is reached. In the face of this looming diplomatic and strategic disaster, the U.S. and British policy of hands off in Iraq seems at first glance negligent. In fact, it is the only policy open to the West. For even if Washington and London trusted Nasser enough to back him in his fight against Kassem, Western...
...course the plucky Gothamites face the problem of getting supplies. Rockefeller presumably will not let food come into the city via upstate and may even blockade the port with Oyster Bay launches...
...discussing 1960 Republican Presidential prospects, DeSapio declared that "a dangerous cynicism" would be introduced into politics if Governor Rockefeller's disavowal of his candidacy were not accepted at face value. Thus Vice-President Nixon will go to the convention as a "pre-chosen candidate," DeSapio claimed...
...game which traditionally defies speculation, the varsity lacrosse team will face the Boston Lacrosse Club this afternoon at 2:30 on the Business School field...