Word: neutralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Millar fed Adams, who had just exited the penalty box, with a diagonal pass through the neutral zone. The captain raced in alone and pinpointed the shot in the top right corner past goaltender Scott Clemmensen with just 23 seconds left in the frame...
...libel suit. "[When] the attacks began," Starr says, "I started saying, 'Well, how do you respond?' And one of the things I said was, 'I will try to bring the qualities of the judge [to the investigation]...eschew political considerations and personal predilections, and [try] to be as steadily neutral as possible...
...when I figured that the Eisenhower grin was worth our entire nuclear arsenal in world affairs. Some careless observers have suggested that it was a perpetual condition. Not so. There was anger, and it lurked beneath a furrowed brow. He could glower, and then often he just shifted into neutral. When he did grin, with old Army comrades or his newfound political friends, you knew more often than not that good things were...
Rosovsky outlines the goal of the ad hoc stagein his book, writing that the body is convened "togive the president the most neutral advicepossible, unaffected by local friendships orprejudices...
...feminist movement one finds this concern raised particularly with regard to language. The word "freshman" is not overtly offensive, but according to feminists it carries the presumption that everyone to whom it refers is male, no matter how vigorously one protests that it is being used in a gender-neutral sense. Therefore, campus feminists campaigned for, and the College adopted, the term "first-year...