Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most does not speak a foreign tongue. Rather, the enemy lies as close as the next bunk. At military bases across the country, homosexuals describe an existence that at best is tentative, guarded and supported by discreet networks. At worst, it can mean snickering colleagues, witch hunts and dangerous "blanket parties," during which the victims are held beneath covers, then beaten senseless. Until now, the military's homosexuals have had to live with the uneasy knowledge that exposure of their secret could mean expulsion...
Amato added that the agency began to send documents when they thought they would be forced to "justify in court their blanket denials for requests for thousands of pages of documents...
...IRELAND THE MATTER OF CHOICE IS NOT SO MUCH one of whether to permit abortion as where to permit it. The country's blanket ban, last reaffirmed by voters in 1983, came under new scrutiny in March, when the Supreme Court allowed a 14-year-old rape victim to have her pregnancy medically terminated in Britain. In a three-part referendum, voters overwhelmingly decided to legalize that previously unlawful option by permitting women to travel abroad for abortions and obtain information about how to do so. But a constitutional amendment allowing abortions to be performed in Ireland in cases where...
Another piece features a latex condom surrounded by an oblong baby blanket-like cover of blue, yellow, pink and white yarn...
...Vatican is officially silent on the latest disputes, which it considers a peculiarly Western phenomenon. But a prelate explains that Rome does not want to "blanket everything in the course of everyday life with the charge of sexism." As another Vatican official sees it, sin is concrete, premeditated action, not an ideology: "Americans, under the influence of the feminist community, wanted a broader definition, that merely thinking of women as different from men is sinful." Catholicism, the prelate maintains, "is defining and protecting the value of the feminine -- not the feminist -- in an age when it is under assault...