Word: veils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concern. Though purchased with care this past August in Jerusalem, my first mezuza will be ungrudgingly replaced. My unqualified trust, however, will never be. Somewhere out there a bigot persists, couching his prejudice in such sheepish acts. Even alone, he is a danger worth confronting. The smallest acts may veil the deepest sentiments...
...Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay activist. At noon, 1,000 San Franciscans protested by marching noisily through the city's financial district, blowing whistles and shouting, "He got away with murder." Sister Boom-Boom, a transvestite dressed in a nun's wimple and veil and motorcycle leathers, told the crowd, "Dan White's got a new life sentence - and it's not going to be a long...
Thus as of this week, Ronald Reagan is scheduled officially and legally to become a candidate for reelection. Not that he has dropped his veil of coyness completely. Reagan has still not told aides explicitly that he plans to run again. Moreover, his statement of candidacy sent to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) includes a disclaimer of sorts. Reagan intends to note that he reserves the right to make a formal announcement later...
...Secretary Margaret Heckler created a special AD task force and proposed to increase federal funds for AD research to $25 million in 1984, up from $17 million in 1981. Says Heckler: "Every breakthrough we achieve is a step toward the reuniting of families and friends, the lifting of the veil of confusion and isolation from Americans who deserve days and years of celebration in their final years, not days and years of drift...
...books, can lapse back into former unconcern. With that policy in place, it is time to move ahead on the more delicate matter of implementation. Primary among these are simplifying the complaint structures so women need not take an embarrassing personal problem through an elaborate bureaucracy and lifting the veil of secrecy that till now has cloaked the problem in an unnecessary ominousness...