Word: bared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surprisingly, that background did not overly impress Baltimore's white voters last week; they preferred the more folksy Burns, 64% to 36%, perhaps because he was backed by the popular Schaefer. But Schmoke won 61% of the black vote and squeaked to victory with a bare 51% of the ballots. His Republican opponent in the general election will be Samuel Culotta, 62, who is white...
...poachers proved ineffective. Most of the rhino hunters cross the border from Zambia. Rangers try to stop them without bloodshed, insists Blondie Leathem, 29, who coordinates the Zambezi Valley patrols, but "trying to arrest a man with an AK-47 is like trying to grab a lion with your bare hands. We must often shoot first to protect our lives...
...Festival in Durham, N.C. It was not modern dance, which is what the festival customarily explores and celebrates. But there were some similarities; the hula is earth seeking, like most of modern dance, not aerial, like classical ballet. It is done with the knees flexed, and, of course, in bare feet. So, often, is modern dance...
...seemed irrelevant for Southern legislators to argue that segregation was a matter that should be left to the states. The point was not of jurisdiction, but of the decision itself. Once the Southern states rights defense was laid bare as a defense of racism, it collapsed. Those people who refused to view the issue as a matter of race, such as Bork, insisted that it was merely a cold legal question of jurisidiction. They say they did not realize how things would turn out, that in retrospect they would have spoken differently...
This ambiguity points to the real problem with the states rights defense. Ultimately it prevents or chills debate of conscience. The issues of racism or homophobia are subordinated to questions of jurisdiction. In this way, wrongs that are being done, prejudices which are being sanctioned, need never be laid bare. They remain hidden in a cloak of deception, mere footnotes to supposedly larger issues such as the sanctity of local autonomy...