Word: face
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mainly dealing with the challenges that women are going to have to face in leaving this school that are particular to our point in time," said Hennessy-Fiske, who said her speech will touch on the upcoming millennium and Radcliffe's changing role in the University...
...encamped inside Kosovo with a group of what he said is a quarter of a million refugees. Lirak said at least three provisional-government ministers are hiding at the guerrilla enclave of Llap, guarded by 4,000 K.L.A. soldiers. The soldiers are eager to fight back, he said, but face Serbian soldiers with a powerful defense: other refugees...
...most loving and attentive parents couldn't cure. Maybe the signs that seem so obvious to us now, in retrospect, were well obscured in the Harris and Klebold homes. Teenagers are good at hiding their true selves--or the selves they're trying out this month--behind the "grandma face" they wear when they're trotted out to see the relatives. Behind that pleasant mask there can be volumes of bad poetry, body piercings and tattoos...
Most teenagers exist in a state of near constant mortification at the prospect of supervision by their parents. But surely a parent can risk his child's embarrassment, and his own discomfort, to get in his or her face a little bit. Surely we can manage to love them a little louder. To find the time to read their school papers, listen to their music, watch what they watch and get to know their friends. I have a memory of my mother, bless her, sitting at our dining-room table and reading the liner notes to Thick as a Brick...
...game, and what could be the Cubans' secret weapon: the Orioles left behind a cache of wooden bats for the cash-strapped Cubans accustomed to more durable aluminum ones. Given a month to practice, they might just play well enough to bring a smile to Castro's face -- and perhaps even to grab their own share of baseball's sky-high salaries...