Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with such opposition, Zinser resigned. Her decision, she said, was based on the "ground swell of concern for the civil rights of deaf persons." The board is now expected to pick a hearing-impaired president. The voice of the deaf was clearly heard -- and heeded.
On the Democratic side, Simon faced the fact that he has to win the Illinois primary to keep even his stripped-down campaign alive until the Democratic National Convention in July.
Faced with the flood of negative publicity, the Cabinet was seriously considering a simplistic solution last week: ban the press from the occupied territories. In fact, when violence erupted after the noontime Muslim prayers Friday, authorities did close parts of the West Bank to reporters.
The explosive complexity of those southern disturbances highlighted the difficulties of controlling a vast empire comprising more than 100 distinct nationalities and ethnic groups living in 15 republics. Russia's rulers have been dealing with restive nationalities since the days of the Czars, but rarely has the problem assumed such...
In another passage, Noah describes the first festival after the flood, speaking -- significantly -- in the first person: "I began to drink ((wine)) on the first day of the fifth year. Then I summoned my sons and the sons of my sons and the wives of all of us and their...