Word: covertly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Traditionally, we see drinking in college as a rite of passage. It is condoned in a covert way," Valle says, adding that people who drink heavily in college should ask themselves, "`Is this something I'm going to grow up with...
Contras. Reagan hailed the rebels fighting Nicaragua's Marxist government as "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers" and sent them overt and covert military support. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker, however, immediately abandoned the nigh hopeless goal of supplying them with more guns and bullets and, instead, struck a deal with Congress to provide continued food and housing assistance, pending elections promised by Nicaragua's junta...
Styles change. But several Black students at the alumni gathering said in interviews that the deeper problems facing minority students have changed little since their years at Harvard. Overt and covert racism and the dearth of minority faculty were and are the major problems faced by Black students, said members of the Classes of 1981-1987 who were in Cambridge this weekend. The difference, according to the alumni, is Black undergraduates' growing focus on these issues...
Jackson said she had some problems with covert racism in her first rooming group. Since she came from a primarily white high school, Jackson said, "I was probably more accustomed to being with [my roommates] than they were to being with...
...courtroom confrontation: defendant and prosecutor, both decorated Marine veterans of Viet Nam, locked in a bitter cross-examination. The Oliver North who endured four days of acerbic questioning by prosecutor John Keker last week did not come across as a selfless patriot used by superiors to carry out a covert plan for assisting the Nicaraguan rebels in defiance of a congressional ban. Instead, North emerged as an evasive witness with a selective memory and unusual personal finances...