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Word: face (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beads of sweat break out on your forehead and slowly travel down your face, into your nose, stinging your eyes. Your hands tremble and fumble with the pages. Yet still you remain transfixed. You read without a sense of yourself--aware only of the feel of paper and the putrid smell of filth and excrement clinging to the words. Occasionally the pages, white and luminous, drag you so deep inside their parameters that for brief moments, you literally imagine you are one of the victims, one of the inhuman, one of the blind. A cold fear clings to each word...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Among the Blind, Chaos is King | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...face: (v.) analogous to "talk to the hand...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, | Title: Speakin' in tongues | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...wood, covered it with lavender carpeting, and strung the room's circumference with black bulb Christmas lights. A black beanbag and an entertainment system populate one wall of the room, the other three surfaces are blanketed with angled mirrors arranged to create diamond panels. Flying in the face of the conventional leopard-print, Jackson opts for another pattern of the savannah: zebra stripe, on a pair of boxers--yes, that's right, underwear--hanging on a hook in the corner...

Author: By Debra P. Hunter, | Title: Rooms Built For Love, and Then Some | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...coming off great and things are going smoothly until just after the appetizer, when you accidentally, and quite loudly, release some gas you've been trying to hold in for the past half hour. Yuck! Here's what to do to get out of this jam while saving face...

Author: By Dan L. Gruenberg, | Title: under pressure | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...probe before Ken Starr has a chance to speak on November 19. Still, with at least five Republican representatives having come out publicly against impeachment over the past few days, GOP lawmakers no longer have the votes in the House -- let alone the Senate -- to impeach Clinton. In the face of a humiliating defeat on the floor, building a bridge to some 21st century jail time may be their only option...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unraveling of Impeachment | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

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