Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank, a five-term southern Massachusetts representative, has faced a storm of criticism of his 18-month involvement with Stephen L. Gobie, a Washington prostitute. Gobie has said that he operated a prostitution ring out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment.
IN her essay on Zora Neale Hurston's autobiography, Alice Walker writes of the disillusionment she faced in reading the "false-sounding" memoirs of her idol's life.
AFTER an evening of hearing impassioned speeches and winning cheers, I faced a two-hour wait before the rumbling comfort of an Amtrak train could rush me back to South Station. That meant a typically uncomfortable stay in and around New York's unpleasant Penn Station.
Such self-righteousness is inappropriate for those of us with a less sterling record of resisting temptation. Thus I stand, a bit belatedly, to concede my guilt in contributing in a small way to the drug crisis. Maybe the '60s were a mistake, maybe I too frequently condoned the self...
And he will, now that he's no longer the fresh-faced rookie out of college. Kenney has always had the skills to be a goalie; now he's thinking like one.