Word: vouch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last thing I would like to do simply not because I can vouch for it, not because I necessarily agree with it, because it is indeed a criticism of our policy, just to lay one more strand of complexity before you. I would like to quote from a letter that has just recently come from a man called Howard Shomer, who was formerly a dean of the Divinity School at Chicago and now is head of the Social Responsibility in Investments for the United Church Boards in the United Church of Christ. He says, he's writing to Tony Lewis...
Discrimination problems among employees at Harvard are hidden. Significantly, while every personnel officer and high-level bureaucrat with hiring privileges insists that there is no discrimination in his or her department, they will not vouch for others. The general feeling is that discrimination does exist, but everyone is quick to point out it is not in his nest. Nevertheless, there are two noticeable types of this "hidden" discrimination--above and beyond the indubitable predominance of white males in the ranks of senior administrators and tenured faculty...
...applicant has been arrested. Yes, many have been busted, but what difference does that make? Don't ask for personal references. Should the ghetto resident get the corner bookie to vouch that he pays his bills...
...unrest that prevailed in Italy before the Fascist takeover in 1922. "Today, again, we have a determined minority waiting in the wings to exploit the first turbulence in our political, economic or social equilibrium," said Rome University Historian Rosario Romeo. "And if this were to happen, I would not vouch that civil strife could be avoided." However, others pointed out that in 1922 Italy was in a state of political anarchy, while the present government crisis, for all the chaos, is an example of the wobbly democratic process in action...
...personal experience (and from the employment of those special "antennae" that Ann Landers insists all we homosexuals have) I make an honest estimate that the number of gay men undergraduates at Harvard is between 20 and 25 percent. I sense that the percentage of women is lower, but cannot vouch for this in any convincing way. A guess based on my experience here puts the number of gay people who are "out" at about one-third. I feel certain that the percentage of gay students still in the closet at Harvard is particularly high. I attended a public university...