Word: orall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart attack occurred Friday during a family vacation in New Hampshire, according to her husband Gerald Shklar, Brackett professor of oral pathology at the Dental School...
...what happens when the butt of your satire co-opts your plot line? The Republican Convention could have been dreamed up by Oral Roberts -- or Bob. Folksy singers abounded in Houston, supporting party ideology with hymns to red blood, white bread and blue-tinted hair. There was country star Lee Greenwood, who has been married five times, appearing as the warm-up act for Barbara Bush on Family Values Night. If he had burst into Times Are Changin' Back, the cognoscenti's sniggers would have been drowned by cheers of the faithful...
...been granted independent status as a category of sexuality. Instead, the behavior has been explained away as a phase. For instance, teenagers sometimes experiment with both male and female partners on the way to establishing their sexual identity. Among Sambia Highlanders in Papua New Guinea, boys practice oral sex with one another as a formal rite of passage toward manhood and adult heterosexuality. Dual sexuality has also been seen as a pragmatic response, a way to fill a sexual need when passion is thwarted by culture and circumstance, such as imprisonment. Mixing between men and women before marriage is strictly...
...lesbians, a chasm based on arcane feminist dialectics or simple lack of shared life-style, because those concerns seemed trivial when compared with life and death. Says Eric Marcus of San Francisco, author of Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, a new oral history of the movement: "In the mature sense of the word community, you can make a case that there really wasn't much of one for a great many gays before AIDS." Thus it has become almost an incantatory mantra within gay circles to say the catastrophe "has not been without its gifts...
...Navy's bad reputation owes much to a string of highly publicized incidents. In 1987 Pentagon investigators uncovered "morally repugnant behavior" on a Navy salvage ship cruising the western Pacific, which included the captain's performing oral sex on a prostitute in front of his crew. In 1990 a female midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy resigned after she was handcuffed to a urinal by male midshipmen. There have also been reports of rapes and sexual assaults...