Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Such intellectual intimidation is intolerable. Discourse must continue unfettered, even if there are those who prejudge all that deviates from the conventional wisdom. The academic community polices itself as junior faculty face review by tenure committees and senior faculty desire the respect of their peers. Student pressure groups and secret inquisitions are unneeded and dangerous additional restraints. Students should always feel free to challenge their professors, but never should run to the censors. Scott Feira...
...Tampa. Bush enters the first of five black Cadillac limousines flown in the day before by Air Force C-130 cargo planes. Morning traffic is never a bother for the Bush campaign: with radios cackling about the movements of "Timberwolf," Bush's code name, the Secret Service and the state police block all intersections along the way. Although Iowans were unimpressed with the trappings of incumbency, Southerners seem to cotton to such pomp and circumstance...
McFarlane played a major role in the Iran-Contra affair, even after he resigned as national security adviser in December 1985. The following May, he led a secret mission to Tehran to open contact with so-called moderate Iranians who were thought to hold influence with kidnappers of American hostages in Lebanon. He brought with him a cake and a Bible signed by President Reagan...
...secret to most Blacks that fraternities and sororities play an enormous role in socialization on predominantly-Black campuses. However Lee gave an inaccurate view of Greek life. He portrayed the head of the Gamma Fraternity, Julian Eaves, as a sadistic, egotistical creep. The sheer pain that Eaves put his pledges through may happen on an isolated basis, but this behavior would not be condoned by any national chapter of a Greek organization...
...provincial Midwesterner discovers unfamiliar places in his native land: Denton, Texas; Athens, Ga.; Memphis and air stations scattered along the coasts of Florida and California. He and the friends he acquires learn to fly planes, the machines and the maneuvers growing increasingly complex: "Sometimes I had secret doubts: would I ever be ready? Would I know when I was? The Navy's endless Tests were there to reassure me. I was passing, I was winning." Learning lessons, off duty as well as on, promises a path to maturity: how to find and then hold liquor; what to do when confronted...