Word: hidden
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...addition, at this year’s Halloween football game, Harvard’s trouncing of Dartmouth may have been less memorable than a new, unknown mascot, who consistently appeared on the Jumbotron completely hidden in a suit of crimson spandex...
...While many are the result of cooking accidents, some are homicides or suicides, often associated with violence by an intimate partner ... Despite the size of the problem, many women do not report their experiences of violence and do not seek help. As a result, violence against women remains a hidden problem with great human and health-care costs." (Read "Why Fires Are Deadlier for Women in India...
Even technology conspired to inflate us. Modesty's power was mystery, its flirty allure, its clandestine strength, what lies hidden and unknown and requires patient excavation or intimacy hard-earned. We are not billboards; we are secrets and codes, except that the modern age of constant communication, each tweet and text, makes secrecy all but impossible and intimacy indiscriminate...
...solving the conflict, noting that Abbas spent last year in talks over a two-state deal with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert without ever mentioning a settlement freeze. Why are the Palestinians suddenly making such a fuss about a settlement freeze now? the Israelis ask, as if this signifies a hidden agenda. The Obama Administration appeared to take Netanyahu's side last weekend, pressing the Palestinians to drop the precondition for talking. But the Palestinians point out that they weren't the only ones raising the issue: the Obama Administration, too, had issued an unambiguous demand that Israel halt all construction...
...raised doubts about the culpability of Bruno Hauptmann, who was sent to the electric chair for the crime. The widower of ballet dancer and actress Moira Shearer, Kennedy was an atheist and advocate of voluntary euthanasia. But his passion was probing old cases. "I became committed to revealing hidden truths," he said, "and propelled, compelled, by a very heady feeling of excitement...