Word: discreetly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Hamptons have gone home to Marion from Los Angeles, and their journey is part of a discreet reverse migration of Southern blacks with second thoughts. "When we left the South, it was a one-way deal," says Joseph Hampton, 57, . a retired aircraft-parts machinist. So it was for 6.5 million other blacks who fled northward between 1910 and 1970 in one of the greatest transplantations in American history. "The first migration was a huge wave crashing on the beach," says Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land, a forthcoming book about this vast crossing. "This is the small undertow...
...Upwards of 60 parents (all women) volunteer on any given day to work as teacher's aides, help out in the cafeteria or cut up frogs for biology class. It's 9 a.m., and they know what their children are doing. So does Sylvia Peters, who tries to keep discreet tabs on the sexual activity of her seventh- and eighth-graders. She proudly cites a lone pregnancy during her tenure...
...P.L.O. leader argues in his defense that his refusal to lambaste Saddam allows him to play a crucial role as a go-between. Arafat has regular communications with Saddam and has been in constant, if discreet, touch with some leaders in Riyadh through Saudi envoys. And despite the official break in the U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue last June, Arafat has kept up informal but regular contacts with the Bush Administration through back channels...
...summer school student residing in a Harvard dorm, I was quite upset when I stumbled upon a discreet notice that had been tossed near my door at around midnight last Thursday. I happened to pick it up, but as with most flyers on the floor, most other students trampled over the paper and never took any notice. To my knowledge, there has been no further acknowledgement not any mandatory meetings or opportunities to discuss the issue in days to follow...
...Hollywood contingent, out of the cast of Driving Miss Daisy, was low key. Gorbachev gave a discreet glance at Morgan Freeman's diamond earring, Jessica Tandy's ponytail, and said nothing. Gorbachev surveyed Senate majority leader George Mitchell, pronounced him "looking good." Mitchell promptly hustled the Soviet boss to come around to his native Maine on the next visit. The U.S. trade czar, Carla Hills, sat at Gorbachev's right but offered only a beatific smile when asked if she had cut any deals over the mixed spring salad. In the White House, candlelight and the aura of history soften...