Word: facing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tamika's face falls. "I'm glad I'm not in love with him or anything," she says. "If he's giving me his girlfriend's pager number...
...when Cambridge Rindge and Latin lets out for the day, the afternoon sun hits the school full in the face, and only the punk kids are there to greet it. Today someone brought a tiny radio. Carrie flips...
...Mica. Together, we lived under the dining room table. Of course, I also had a bedroom. This is how I learned to inhabit two places at once. Later, when I reached the Age of Math Class, I found this skill invaluable. While my eyes never left Miss Robinson's face, I was quite decidedly somewhere else. But after many years of such duality, not to mention of crumbs in my pajamas and an idea that a fraction's denominator was utterly superfluous, I decided to put an end to my double living. I could only be in one locale...
...hesitant to diverge. Do not as cognoscenti lord it over people, practicing the poker-face, the bored tyrant. Do not order people around. What was the first occurrence of any given thing? Onomasticon whatchamacallit...
...both Clayton and Vega, the issue is clear-cut. A majority of the kids in the program face "skill-barriers" as well as language barriers. The idea of the program to help them gain skills that are transferable. "How are you ever going to get a kid to read Shakespeare if he can't read Cervantes," asks Clayton. "The overwhelming majority [of the Spanish-speaking students] can't write a coherent well-punctuated sentence in Spanish...