Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinguished visitor with the brown, gem-cut face and Oriental costume stepped agilely from the Independence and shook President Truman's hand. He looked startled at the first manifestation of democracy, U.S. style; photographers were shouting to the President: "Bring Mr. Nehru over here." The President willingly obliged. But Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, regained his smile as Harry Truman welcomed him to the U.S. The President had a pleasant little speech ready: ". . . Destiny ruled that our country should have been discovered in the search for a new route to yours...
Laureano, his angry face as red-veined as a banknote, met this challenge personally. "When Conservative lips proclaim peace," he told the nominating convention last week, "they do so with sincerity. Our hearts are not poisoned with hateful desires to destroy the Christian order and replace it with Communist tyranny. We offer peace in the fullest sense of liberty and justice...
...dead has ever received on a single occasion, was a man of whom one Parisian wrote: "Chopin can best be denned as a trinite charmante. His personality, his playing and his compositions were in such harmony that they could no more be separated than can the features of one face...
...long suffered from tuberculous hemorrhages. One day in 1849 ne was visited by a former schoolmate, a priest, who found his face "cold as alabaster . . . Bubbling with wit and exceedingly kind, he seemed to belong only in slight degree to earth. But, alas, he was not thinking of heaven." Chopin told his friend, "I should not like to die without having received the sacrament, because I don't want to bring grief to my mother. But I cannot take it, because I don't understand it in your...
Cousins in Space? Kuiper does not think that the earth's satellite, the moon, was formed in this way. The earth-moon pair, he thinks, is a double planet, formed when the planets were formed. The pockmarks on the moon's face were made by material raining down from the double planet's common disc. The earth must have had similar marks, originally, he thinks, but since it was big enough to hold an atmosphere, the marks were erased long ago by wind-and-water erosion...