Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...progress to this distinction began only 39 years ago. He was probably the ugliest little squirt in Chambers County, Ala., where he was born. A skin disease pocked his face. His body was small, his complexion an unlovely red. His father was a farmer, none too well off, and Claude went to work when he was a boy. He taught grammar and high school, worked in a steel mill, rolled coal and ashes in a power plant to buy food during his first half-year at the State University. Then he got a job running a dining hall, thankfully gave...
...fire bit the dark. Again Hugh Drum's fast-moving motorized column, riding a motley assortment of green, red and white trucks, turned up on the Blacks' south flank. By noon the Blues' artillery had crossed the Raquette behind the infantry. With pleased but dead-pan faces at the power of tactics which threatened to about-face the invaders and back them against the St. Lawrence, umpires called...
...moved from behind the protective trees; the full light fell on Wendell Willkie's sweat-shined face and tousled hair as he called out his challenge to Franklin Roosevelt: "I charge that the course this administration is following will lead us, like France, to the end of the road ... to economic disintegration and dictatorship. This is a serious charge. It is not lightly made. It cannot be lightly avoided. ... I, therefore, have a proposal to make. The President stated in his acceptance speech that he does not have either 'the time or the inclinations to engage in purely...
Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies was overcome by emotion as he told the Australian Parliament the story. He paused at one point and covered his face with his hands. Politically, Mr. Menzies' loss of three senior Ministers from his Cabinet laid him wide open to strident Labor demands that the Australian general election, which the Government has tried to postpone on the plea of war emergency, be held in 1940 as it normally would be under the Constitution...
This week the Texas Corp. directors had to face a further decision: whether to sever Director Rieber from the company completely by taking away his directorship. For the rank & file of Texas Corp. employes, that question was academic. They knew it would be a cold day before they could forget the greying, generous, powerfully built man who slapped them on the back and said: "This is the best God damn company in the world"; who built the famed Barco pipeline in Colombia after they said it couldn't be done; who once exclaimed: "Hell, if they wanted to move...