Word: mask
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seniors don't talk about this fear much, but we betray our anxiety in subtle ways. Some are anxiously seeking out classmates who will be living in the same city as them, making promises to hang out with each other on weekends. Others mask their anxiety by insisting that their 80-hour-a-week jobs suit them just fine. A social life, they say, isn't too important when you're climbing the corporate ladder and getting such significant professional stimulation. Still others welcome employment in companies that take responsibility for their employees' social lives, scheduling their free time with...
...alive, he has lost his looks and his face is hideously disfigured. What was a straight-forward storyline before the accident now becomes hopelessly entangled, as Cesar's dreams, nightmares and fantasies are showed as if they were real. Unable to cope with his face, he tries wearing a mask and calls himself the "Phantom of the Opera...
...This is an issue of national security policy, not of public safety," said Richard A. Falkenrath, an assistant professor of public policy at the KSG. "You don't need to go home tonight...and buy a gas mask...
...effectively, they fail to incite the kind of ire that true conservatives do. The new Republicans are so reasonable, so innocuous, as to make us forgive and forget when they receive funding from the Christian Coalition. You see, the Ralph Reeds are still there, but they are wearing a mask of moderation. It is when their mouthpieces get elected that they will unleash their true conservatism--after it's too late...
...retrospect, were well obscured in the Harris and Klebold homes. Teenagers are good at hiding their true selves--or the selves they're trying out this month--behind the "grandma face" they wear when they're trotted out to see the relatives. Behind that pleasant mask there can be volumes of bad poetry, body piercings and tattoos...