Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...vilification," and hurled insults at "silly old Bill Green," president of A. F. of L. He declared: "The labor movement cannot exist or function without confidence on the part of its members, each with the other, confidence that they will associate themselves together. . . ." The next day, jut-jawed, broad face pale, he delivered a bilious soliloquy, kindled bitterness on all sides...
Last week Rufo Romero made one of the most unusual protestations of innocence in legal history, one of the strangest of the Orient's many historic face-saving gestures. He offered to undergo any kind of brain surgery that would knife out of his head any recollection of military matters. He wanted to save his face even if it meant losing his memory...
...valor of the men who did it. The town stands at an elevation of 2,500 ft. on the western scarp of the Morava heights. Its defense against assault from the west and north, whence Italy must try to come back or lose what remains of her sorry face, is made easy by artillery planted on Morava and on Mount Ivan...
Last week, the 65th of World War II, the U. S. art world seemed to find a new interest in life. Unable to face man's inhumanity to man, artists and gallerygoers agreed that war was the time to concentrate on good clean animals. In Manhattan what began as a coincidence seemed turning into a circus parade for escapists. Items...
...plane took off, heading north over shadowy peaks toward an Albanian port. Soon they ran into heavy mist, then a rainstorm moved in from the sea. When the pilot realized he was off his course, he dropped a flare that lighted up the hills, showed the sheer rock face of a bluff looming ahead. He dropped one bomb to lighten the plane, had no chance to release another. On a desolate peak near Danilovgrad, in neutral Yugoslavia, Ralph Barnes died in action with three...