Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...face of their great disadvantage in these respects, the Royal Navy's patrols -fewer by far than in World War I-must now cope with enemy submarines based, not way up the Channel coast at Zeebrugge or clear around the continent's shoulder in Bremen, Hamburg and Kiel, but just across the Channel in Le Havre, Brest, Lorient, St. Nazaire-perhaps in a dozen other obscure ports where they can slip home at night for more fuel, food and torpedoes after brief but lethal runs to meet convoys spotted if not bombed by the far-roving Luftwaffe...
These counsels were reflected in the field. The Japanese drastically shortened lines and weakened garrisons in China, at the cost of much face and the risk of future distress. In the extreme southwest, they burned and evacuated Nanning. and. fighting off harassing Chinese troops, retired from Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces to Hainan Island, springboard for projected drives westward to the rest of Indo-China, southward at Dutch islands, eastward at Hong Kong. The Chinese claimed that in the eleven months since the Japanese took Nanning, they had lost 74,000 men by sickness and siege. The Japanese claimed that...
...this time Dr. Porter was as fine a man as you would want to meet. But after following Linda to New York, he perversely fell in love with a foreign correspondent's wife whose face was ravaged as the result of a chemical explosion, but it became necessary for Linda to leap into a river in despair. Then the doctor had a nervous breakdown. Unable to figure out any way to get the doctor back on the right track the authors at this point decided to send him home to mother. Meanwhile Linda was rescued by an Irish bargeman...
...Angeles, leading his company of marines in columns of fives, Captain James Roosevelt marched them to the place where the battalion was lining up. At the proper spot he barked: "Halt! Left Face!" Executing the order with precision, they came to a halt exactly in the battalion front, buttocks toward the major in command, faces to a concrete wall. Quickly Captain Jimmy, summoning all his military experience (until Aug. 1: three weeks of active duty at Quantico, Va.; one night a week drill, several hours a week of administrative duty), squeaked "About Face," while seasoned sergeants winced, looked down their...
Thus weakened in Guatemala, TACA lost more face in Costa Rica when one of its planes, on an unscheduled flight, whanged into a mountainside, killing the pilot and five passengers. Hoping the plane had merely made a forced landing in a deserted spot, TACA withheld news of its lateness for several hours. Next morning the San Jose Tribuna printed a scathing editorial, hinted some might have been saved if TACA had reported the missing plane sooner. To make matters worse, TACA's dapper lawyer, Jean La Baron, who constantly puffs on long, thin cigars, was quoted by Costa Rican...