Word: facing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Finally Gaitskell rose to face the 1,300 cheering, booing, catcalling delegates. Defending the Atlantic alliance against foregone defeat, he made the speech of his life. "Are we so simple," he asked, "as to believe that the Soviet Union is not going to use the power put into its hands if you unilaterally disarm? The West must retain nuclear weapons so long as the Soviet Union has them." Scornfully, he turned on some who argued that Britain could unilaterally disarm its nuclear strength without leaving NATO: "Would these people follow the cowardly, hypocritical course of saying...
...face perspiring in the glaring lights, Gaitskell said grimly that he had read that this whole argument was not about defense at all but about his leadership. Amid whistling, booing and stamping, Gaitskell said that the leadership of the Labor Party is finally determined by the members who sit in the House of Commons, and that "the vast majority of Labor M.P.s are opposed" to neutralism and had made this clear to the men and women who voted for them. The hall was in uproar, but Gaitskell's voice went plowing on: "Do you think we Labor M.P.s...
...ripping down the posters of the other side. The English-language papers openly plugged the anti-republican side, just as Afrikaner editors gave the headlines to government workers who were urging the electorate to vote Ja. One excited anti-republic housewife out shopping heaved a custard pie into the face of a jeering Nationalist...
...waves kept to the same razor-edged frequency; other light is a mixture of frequencies. They formed a slender pencil beam that hardly spread out at all. If they had marched to the moon-240,000 miles-they would have covered less than one twenty-fifth of its face...
...year-old father in Miami, retired to his hotel room for three days with nervous fatigue. As for the show itself. Composer Loewe had armored himself in a metaphor. "When you see it." he warned visitors just before curtain time, "remember that when a baby is born, its face is all wrinkled, it looks like a prune. It is red and ugly and you say, Ts that my baby? No. Never.' But six weeks later, the baby has smooth, soft skin. Six weeks from now, Camelot will be the most beautiful infant ever...