Word: facing
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According to Reardon, the most difficult problems the new chief will face involve the fiscal constraints that limit the department's efforts to modernize itself...
Rodwin's apartment does not face the club--it looks instead onto the Cambridge Common. But he says that on some nights, he can hear noise from the club's parties and people exiting onto the street afterward as late...
...when one Yale exhibitionist ran to the Harvard sideline near the game's end, a Harvard Police officer tackled him. The officer continued to press the streaker face down into the ground until other officers arrived to help carry the student out of the stadium...
...charge, was touched by the plea of another defendant that a $35,000 judgment would put his family on the sidewalk. "It's okay, Your Honor," said Straus, "just stick it on my tab!" It is only across the table that you would not want to face such fellows. That, as one old female player told Holden, "is a tough way to make an easy living...
...burden of power has added weight to his taut cheeks, sketched lines under his eyes and erased the spontaneity from his grin. The face of Carlos Salinas de Gortari recalls Mexico's ubiquitous clay masks: one side smiles, free of trenchant thought; the other is a frieze of pained contemplation. That, Nobel laureate Octavio Paz wrote in The Labyrinth of Solitude 40 years ago, is typical of his countrymen: "His face is a mask, and so is his smile...