Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Kenneth Roberts has a legendary temper, on which he practices great self-control. But self-control in his case is said to be a brief, turkey-red moment between the rush of blood to his face and an outburst that begins (in milder cases) with goddam, ends (several minutes later) in total verbal annihilation. Fellow authors like Booth Tarkington, Ben Ames Williams, Samuel Blythe have publicized these tantrums with such glee that the suspicion has grown that Roberts rages are also literary, less an adrenalin effusion than a character signature like Wotan's motif in the Nibelungen Ring...
Maine Boy. Absence of fear in the face of hard facts comes naturally to Novelist Roberts-he comes from Maine. Even before there were 13 colonies, Boston theocrats found out that the rest of the country might or might not go as Maine goes, but Maine would keep right on going its own way. One of the earliest men to settle there was Richard Nason who arrived in Kittery before 1639. Toward the end of the last century, Grandmother Jane Nason Tibbets used to take six-year-old Grandson Kenneth Roberts on her knee, tell him bedtime stories about Indian...
...many a moon Congress has yearned to go home. Republicans had promised to stick and see that Franklin Roosevelt did not get the country in trouble. Democrats had to stay until after the election or lose face with voters at home. But now elections were over. Passed for the first time in the history of the U. S. was peacetime conscription. Passed were bills to spend $16,920,627,477.15 ($9,114,345,921.58 worth for defense). Last week, weary with waiting, watching and working, its "must" legislation complete and a new Congress about to convene in six weeks...
Italy tried to retrieve her shattered face by claiming, belatedly, that during Sir Andrew's sweep of the Mediterranean, an Italian submarine thrice torpedoed one of his battleships of the Ramillies class. Benito Mussolini blustered that only three ships had been hit at Taranto. only one badly damaged. London laughed. Her agents told her that a military court was sitting in Rome to discover who had let Taranto happen...
...from Britain out to Australia. She had just six 6-inch guns and no armor plate over her ribs. Her commander was an Irish admiral's middle-aged son named Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegan. He had promised his men that if ever they met the enemy they would face him and close...