Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Suddenly you were on the runway with foam on your face and on your back," she said, adding that she probably would take the train back to New York...
...means mutually exclusive. America needs to distinguish between excessive intervention in the internal affairs of foreign nations and its legitimate right, some might say duty, to preserve the lives and interests of Americans abroad. The lives of American citizens, in addition to Carter-esque loss of face, are a terrible price to pay in order to court the good-will of factions showing precious little of it themselves...
Eric laughed, quickly and loudly. "Yeah, all right, I get it." But the man turned back to face the buttons. We rode to his floor in an uncomfortable silence...
...capitulated to foreign trade pressures by opening Japan to food imports. Charged Masatoshi Wada, a leader of the 10,000-strong Shuso Agricultural Cooperative: "The L.D.P. promised to fight against liberalization at any cost, and then gave up the fight. We can no longer trust them at their face value...
George Bush has watched with concern the mounting fatigue and stress that show in the face of Mikhail Gorbachev, caught now in the riptide of Soviet unrest. It is midsummer in Washington, and the President is heavily engaged in trench warfare with Congress. But a part of his mind is on the extraordinary events in the Communist world and the possibility that before the year ends, he might be called upon to help bolster his weary Soviet counterpart. Strange bedfellows. Strange world these days...