Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quote the arguments of the Steelworkers Union with a straight face! They are utterly false...
...mingle with the masses. He fiercely attacked Nehru's endless temporizing with the Communists, supported the direct-action groups in Kerala, and demanded that India do something about Red China's aggression in Tibet. Last week he called on the exiled Dalai Lama, and in the face of Nehru's indifference, urged the envoys of 14 Afro-Asian countries to unite in protest against Red China's blood actions in Tibet...
With the nation's dollar reserves just about gone and some of its industries near bankruptcy. Generalissimo Francisco Franco decided to face the unpleasant facts. Last week he agreed to a sweeping austerity program in order to qualify for "at least $200 million" in credits from the International Monetary Fund and two other agencies, including' an undisclosed amount from the U.S., which already pours $200 million a year into Spain. Among the austerity reforms...
...houses in Lawrence, Mass., abruptly went broke. Kicked out of their mansion on Jackson Street, the Demaras landed in a shabby old carriage house on the wrong side of the gloomy old mill town. Fred hated poverty, with its stiff work boots and corduroy knickers, and he refused to face it. Every chance he got he sneaked back to the old house, sat in the attic and "dreamed about things I hoped would come true...
When TV next manages to turn a folk hero into a public nuisance, by marinating his name in an indelible jingle and spreading his face, printed on T-shirts, across millions of tiny chests, there can be no more likely candidate than Robert Rogers. He was a woodsman and explorer of great skill, a brilliant military innovator, and an Indian fighter so widely feared that he was a myth before he was 30. The fact that the redoubtable French and Indian Warrior was, at one time or another, a resident of debtors' prison, a suspect in a counterfeiting ring...