Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it comes to gay participation, the overt concern is about role models, while the unspoken correlative is fear of child molestation. In practice, an acknowledged homosexual is an unlikely molester, if only because parents would be watchful, while married, middle-aged scoutmasters have been known to transgress...
...racial harmony, and reads slowly out loud about George Bush's threatened veto of the new civil rights bill and about a school-board vote in Jackson along racial lines. "The battle of human rights and race relations is over," he says, "but while most people don't express overt racism, their actions manifest a prejudice. We've got to persevere...
...full of himself, his hopes that his new book will hit the best-seller charts, his dreams that an impending visit from Good Morning America will make him a media star. He has no thoughts to spare for a wife heading into terminal recessiveness and kids heading toward overt rebellion as they try to get through to their inaccessible...
...honestly believe that Harvard's position on this matter is an overt rejection of the principles of free enterprise upon which Harvard's endowment is built and a denial of the rights of freedom of expression upon which Harvard's liberal reputation is built. Our product line has considerable more character than a Fred Flintstone in a Harvard loin cloth as depicted in Forbes magazine, October 29 1990 on page 126. Mark R. Lane Coed Sportswear, Third...
...past four weeks, Shi'ite Muslims in the south and Kurds in the north have been trying to accomplish just that. Yet after Bush met with his top national security advisers last week, the President made it clear that U.S. military forces now occupying southern Iraq will give no overt assistance to the rebels...