Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who have long since learned to look reality in the face, Willy Brandt's Berliners unflinchingly accept the prospect that they will remain islanders for a long time to come...
...genially popped over to inspect the U.S. exhibit abuilding for the Moscow fair last week, the West caught an echo of the missile-rattling Khrushchev when he told a group of visiting West German editors that in any nuclear war "the Western powers would be literally wiped off the face of the earth" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...told a group of West German visitors to Moscow that Russia could put their homeland "out of action" with not more than eight H-bombs; in a nuclear war, he conceded, Russia would suffer "losses, and great ones," but "the Western powers would be literally wiped off the face of the earth...
...Weekly of India: "It will be a sad day for Asia if, after a struggle for two centuries, she overthrows European imperialism only to become victim of another and more sinister imperialism." And in Parliament's first chance to debate the Tibetan question, Nehru was bluntly asked to "face reality" and re-examine the aims of Red China...
Blinking Lights. In addition to traffic, British motorists face a horror largely unknown in the U.S.: the driver whose car displays, front and back, the big red L sign that stands for "learner." Disregarding double lines, painted arrows, blinking lights, rules of the road and the prospect of dismemberment and death, many L drivers whip past trucks on hills and blind curves, weave nonchalantly from lane to lane on the few big throughways. Picnicking on Sunday, drivers blithely leave their cars parked in the path of traffic. Last month 515 Britons died in traffic accidents; 23,277 were injured...