Word: headon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theme-the disruptive impact of Western manners, morals and ideas on the semifeudal, arch-familistic patterns of Eastern life. Kipling said "never the twain shall meet"; the novelists of the East seem to be ruefully saying "never the twain shall part," and rather regretting that East and West met headon...
...Lafayette, Ind. wallpaper manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators & Paperhangers of America (A.F.L.) met the do-it-yourself threat headon. They organized a National Joint Paperhanging Training Committee to teach more apprentices the trade, hope they can persuade more householders to hire more paperhangers and buy more paper...
Gavilan set out to give a boxing lesson, stabbing sharp lefts, waltzing away, rushing in for a ferocious flurry of punches. He got his comeuppance in the second round. Instead of backing away in confusion, Basilio met the champion headon. He shook Gavilan with a right, landed a crushing left hook flush on his jaw. The crowd went wild; for the second time in 112 fights, the great Kid Gavilan was down, flat on his back, eyes glazed, pomaded hair askew. The referee counted to eight before the champion got to his feet and groggily hung on until the bell...
...Taft appeared seriously worried by the effect on delegates of the argument that he cannot win in November. Characteristically, instead of soft-pedaling the issue, Taft met it headon. If nominated, he cried, he will carry 30 states and win by a 5,000,000-vote majority...
...engines began to roll slowly toward each other on the same narrow-gauge track. The engineers in the cabs pushed the throttles open, then jumped clear as the trains picked up speed. A few seconds later the canyon rocks reverberated with a thunderous blast as the iron horses collided headon. Scrap iron hurtled against the wooden barricades which protected the five cameras grinding away from different angles. Farther off, 300 railroad and film people cheered. As any small boy could understand, there may be something richly satisfying in the spectacle of two monsters bashing hell out of each other...