Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another age, it is true, these matters would never have presented themselves: at Harvard especially one would have devoted oneself to one's studies, and kept covert his social activities. Like in the 1960's the doors to sex open early and there are few people who fail to enter them, however loudly older people might cry "shame" from their platforms outside. To an extent, as Dr. Carl Binger has pointed out, this phenomenon pressures people into relationships that demand maturity, before they are fully prepared. Many couples, as well as many individuals, have met with major or minor misfortunes...
Although tribal college students are barred by the government from joining NUSAS, the student union has made covert contact in the colleges. Several tribal college students attended this summer's NUSAS convention, although, of course, their identity was kept secret...
...Regarding your gratuitous credit for inspiration of our CIA exposé [Sept. 13], we wish to inform you that the inspiration came not from Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu but from the widely witnessed overt-covert games of coup promoters themselves, and from some of those who got interesting offers. Many people here believe that if Kennedy is trying to solve his own problems-special forces, brother, religion and social-disturbances-by blowing them up in Viet Nam and then knocking them off with a coup d'état, he will fail on both sides of the world...
...jurors, a research team working under the auspices of New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University persuaded some 500 persons of varied backgrounds to take an elaborate test designed to reveal prejudices that might affect their judgment as jurors. The test was set up to detect both "overt" and "covert" prejudices. The findings, released this week, include a lot of surprises about who is, or is not, biased toward whom...
...RELIGION. The people tested revealed, as prospective jurors, almost no prejudice against Roman Catholics, Jews, or any of the old, established Protestant denominations. In contrast, many people in many diverse walks of life showed at least covert prejudice against "Ad-ventists/Jehovah's Witnesses" (the researchers lumped them together as a single category...