1.   His face had grown hard as flint, the skin taut and bloodless.

2.   But it grew hard to concentrate.

3.   In this barren world, where people grow hard to survive, their tenderness for their daughter seems all the more painful.

4.   In the end, it grew hard to tell the dancer from the dance, to see where New York began and Rudolph Giuliani ended.

5.   Thus domesticated animals long replaced wild game for food when wild game grew hard to find, she wrote.

6.   When children are nurtured on this bitter broth, identities as well as hearts grow hard from an early age.

7.   Young fans in particular are growing hard to find.