Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday, the Lions will face Yale in New Haven. Yale (0-3-1 overall, 0-0-1 Ivy) has had a horrible three weeks, losing badly to Connecticut, Army and Navy. The closest thing to a victory the Elis could muster was a 24-24 tie against Brown during the first week of the season...
With the story now exposed as a hoax, Maddox and Mason are being called up before the disciplinary board of the New York State Bar Association for their accusations and face possible disbarment for knowingly subverting justice. Sharpton, although a preacher and not a lawyer, has also completely lost what little credibility he had. On the Morton Downey show, he affirmed on his Bible that everything he said about the Brawley case was true...
...first place I stopped was Brigham's IceCream on Tremont St.; the machine-paintedPositions Available sign, the construction holesand barricades at the door and the harassed andgreasy face of the manager drove me away beforeI'd even finished the application...
...felt nervous and a little scared. Therewas a kiosk with an aerial photo-map of Boston;looking down from the air into the buildings andstreets made my stomach rise and tilt, like I wasin an elevator that had just lurched 50 stories. Ididn't want to go upstairs and face job hunting; Iwandered around looking for a musician, feelingvaguely sorry for myself. It was amazing how justimagining that I had no job depressed me; twocheerful Deadheads playing "Jailhouse Rock"finally got me upstairs...
NEXT on my list of newspaper ads werethe Faneuil Hall jobs, but I couldn't face itsthick layers of pretty lights, pretty people,pretty products and general air of hyperactivecharm. There was a pearl-stringers job listed onWashington Street, which was almost asscintillating as Faneuil; the Jewellers' Building,though, looked promising...