Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begins to count something on his fingers, then having lost his aplomb, his face breaks into a smile, he waves his arms and begins himself to applaud the question...
...appearance at Villa Acuna, Mexico two months ago, Clements was a sensation. The judges awarded him two ears from his first bull, two ears and a tail from his second. Wrote a critic for El Redondel, Mexico City's bullfight weekly: "The gentleman of the bullring, with a face as impassive as a sphinx, withstood stoically the angry charges of the brave bull. With the tragic rhythm of the bullfight, not moving an inch and employing grace as well as mathematical precision, Clements killed his enemy with one thrust of the estoque [sword]. It was a classical kill...
...When he came to see me," Abbie Van Allen says now, "he dreaded having to talk to my roommates while he waited for me. He'd walk in, look wildly around for a magazine, and bury his face in it just to avoid making small talk. When we finally decided to get married, the girls thought I was crazy. They asked: 'How can you marry a guy like that...
WATERPROOF MONEY will be issued by Japanese Finance Ministry to save $360 million face value in currency damaged each year by water. New notes will have synthetic resin mixed into pulp, will withstand the washing machine...
...Assistant Secretary of Commerce Henry Kearns and fellow officials, is cut the lead time on research and development, pull off the shelf better products originally planned for future exploitation, sharpen up their selling tactics. What U.S. labor must do, says many an economist (see State of Business), is face up to the fact that it can no longer afford raises not balanced by gains in productivity. The alternative will be an accelerating loss in markets-and eventually jobs...