Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Trotsky the historian remembered, even in the face of death, that history must record his end. To Natalie Sedova, who hovered over him, he told what had happened in the study. "I feel here," said Trotsky, pointing to his heart, "that this time they have succeeded...
...British, who think they like nothing that is not staid and conservative, rise to colorful leadership as enthusiastically as any other people. Since May 10 Churchill has proved himself a superb showman, has popped up photogenically with his cherubic face on as many scenes and occasions as Eleanor Roosevelt or Mayor LaGuardia...
Best reporter in Foreign Correspondent is Hitchcock's camera. When a diplomat is shot, the camera is in the right place, looking at his face. When a man is about to drop from a tower, it watches a hat making the plunge first. When a wounded Clipper is hurtling down toward the sea, it is peering anxiously from the pilot's seat. It has, too, the supreme reporter's gift of not telling everything...
...particular brand of umpire-baiting made all his colleagues look like little Lord Fauntleroys. Last week Old Burley, now 47 and manager of the minor-league Grand Rapids Club, reminded baseball fans that he has not lost his stuff. For spitting tobacco juice in an umpire's face, he was banished from organized baseball for one year, the stiffest punishment a manager ever received...
...Pearson & Allen found him willing. But the National Defense Advisory Commission insisted that no one member of the Commission should make his views known before a joint report had been issued. Forthwith Pearson & Allen pulled potent strings, presently from the White House came word that Knudsen was free to face a mike...