Word: rugs
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...more prejudiced in the eyes of black observers when the context of race is relevant.” Apfelbaum pointed out that the researchers are still studying how individuals can best handle the topic of race in social settings without appearing prejudiced. “Sweeping race under the rug is not an effective strategy,” Apfelbaum said. “Race has to be engaged in some regards. Through this research, however, we have a very exciting prospect for intervention. The fact that students start to harness social norms around the age of 10 suggests that this...
...like the financial press has swept the story under the rug, certainly. But what we've generally heard are either dire - but very vague - warnings or the general argument that, if credit dries up, that affects loans to businesses and little guys, and people start to lose jobs...
...thrust the parchment into her bosom.Her pangs of shame at having read her master’s private poetry were overwhelmed by a rush of feeling: So he really was what she had suspected. His wife’s fury, the brooding, the sighing, the long weeps on the rug in the study ... Frederick was an artist.* * * The footman coughed nervously as Felicity swept past him into the villa’s lush gardens. She didn’t bother to look at him; she knew she had seduced him already. Had he been last month or the month before...
...doubts before her speech," Downer said. "There was nervousness, especially among those who believed that we had found our lady, but that the liberal media was going to pull the rug out from underneath...
...accustomed, after centuries of experience, to ambitious fathers whose parental failures are glossed over and swept under the rug by devoted wives and complicit courtiers; we only learn about the train wrecks of famous families when we read the memoirs. When a man at the height of his powers announces he will be Spending More Time with His Family, it translates as: he messed up big-time, didn't have what it takes...