Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about decided he would have to blast anyway, when three students heard him and called the cops. Parry was going back to his car for a longer wire when a patrolman stuck a pistol in his face. "Who are you, pal?" asked the cop. "I'm a loser,"*said Parry wearily...
...speak not only to those who enjoy the blessings and consolation of revealed religion, but also to those who face the mysteries of human destinies alone...
...part of the I.F.F. equipment (the "transponder") switched on and working properly. CJ A new microphone, weighing less than oz. and smaller than a stack of six dimes, had its radio try out. Developed by California's Altec Lansing Corp., it does not hide a speaker's face, does not boom when he gets too close, is omnidirectional and can be hidden anywhere on a television production stage. The fact that it can be hidden in a boutonniere might make it useful to sleuths-friend...
...withdrew more & more into himself. He stayed at home with his mother, brother and three sisters, who, he says, were "all good-looking." After five weeks in the tenth grade, he left school and went to work at a series of jobs that could be done without showing his face much-in shipping rooms, basements and back rooms...
...cemetery shed is inhabited by a certain Mrs. Lily Sammile, a fluttery woman (though "rather like a chicken fluttering round the glass walls of a snake's cage") of no determinable age, with a face that was once beautiful. She is very sociable indeed ("She meets one continually and she's at things. She calls"), but not very good company. ("It was said that they whom she overtook were found drained and strangled in the morning, and a single hair tight about the neck, so faint, so sure, so deathly...