Word: wordly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administration conservatives were stunned by the report's candor. They were particularly outraged that he did not preach abstinence alone and refer euphemistically to body fluids rather than semen. "The White House doesn't like the C word. But if you don't talk about condoms, people are going to die. So I talk." Liberals were amazed that Koop had produced a reasoned report with such compassion for homosexuals, whom he had once called antifamily. Phyllis Schlafly, who said the report sounded as if it had been edited by a gay-rights group, lashed out against Koop...
...Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Jungle) that changed public attitudes and policy. To mark its golden anniversary, the book's original publisher has issued a new edition (Viking; $25) and also the journals Steinbeck kept during the five months (five months!) it took him to complete the 200,000-word manuscript...
...individual that counts physical activity as a part of his or her own being, whether a competitive athlete or not, shudders at the mere whispering of the word "injury...
...watched the ghosts of 1969 rally in Harvard Yard two weeks ago, one word kept running through my mind--promise...
...said eliminated. That's the word I use for all the leaders active in the units of terror...