Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came as a shock to Wolchok and Altman, who had hoped for aid and sympathy from Murray, not liquidation. Murray's order did not dissolve Wolchok's union; Sam would be allowed to hang on to as many of his members as he could. But in the face of an organizing drive by the Amalgamated, that probably wouldn't be very many or for very long. The Amalgamated has a membership of 375,000, a treasury of $6,000,000, and a hustling set of hard-nosed organizers. For the Amalgamated's president, spade-bearded Jacob...
Slap in the Face? In Paris, the U.N.'s Security Council, which had first put its hand to the Indonesia struggle in the summer of 1947, met in emergency session. The Dutch told the Council bluntly that intervention by it would accomplish nothing, that the Java action was a purely domestic affair over which U.N. had no jurisdiction...
...British spokesmen, though careful to avoid anything that sounded like condemnation of the Dutch, were quite clearly dismayed. They felt that unilateral military action by the Dutch was a slap in the face not only to the United Nations, but to hundreds of millions of Asiatics who expected the West to abjure all remnants of old-style colonial rule. Premier Jawaharlal Nehru of India promptly reacted as had been expected; he denounced the Dutch attack as imperialism...
...only a little shy about her new motherhood. She proudly displayed a new gold, sapphire and ruby clip presented her by Philip in honor of the occasion. Only Prince Charles himself showed any displeasure at the proceedings. When the photographers turned their battery of lights full in his face, he bawled hugely and had to be pacified by a Georgian silver rattle which was appropriately produced by a well-accoutered cameraman...
...compasses and calendars. "The figure for duration of useful sunshine," it read, "should be derived from the length of the longest day of the year (without clouds), counting the total period of sunshine into a room, including direct as well as indirect rays. Indirect rays are . . . those striking the face of a room at an angle of less than 15° and . . . include rays which do not penetrate a bay window of one meter in width...