Word: secreting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...luxury of not having to make a choice about the impending war. For most of us, the military build-up in the Gulf simply does not directly affect our daily lives, so many of us do not feel compelled to take a side. We can run about buying Secret Santa gifts and writing term papers and not realize how close we are to war. But the deadline approaches rapidly...
BENEATH A BLUE UMBRELLA by Jack Prelutsky (Greenwillow; $15.95). The poet laureate of childhood has found his ideal illustrator in Garth Williams. Here are enough amusement and instruction to last a lifetime. Sample: "I had a little secret/ that I could not wait to tell,/ I whispered it to Willa,/ who repeated it to Nell./ Nell had to tell Belinda,/ who told Laura and Lenore,/ I think my little secret/ is no secret anymore...
...when advocates were pressed for a solution, they answered the congressional committees and task forces and think tanks with a sharp demand: "Housing, housing and housing." And in a way, they were right. It was no secret that a main cause of homelessness in the '80s was the poor being squeezed out of the housing market. In the 1970s and '80s, the average rent grew twice as fast as the average income. Manufacturing jobs disappeared: of the 12 million new jobs created since 1979, more than half pay less than $7,000 a year, and many provide no health insurance...
This fact isn't always acknowledged. I've heard of a number of Jewish students who have felt reluctant to participate in Secret Santa events. When Jewish first-year student expressed reservations about joining in a seemingly Christian ritual, his proctor replied, "I hadn't even thought of that...
...proctor and the overzealous Secret Santa clearly weren't trying to be insulting. They simply lacked sensitivity; they didn't imagine that the overflow of Christmas-speak and Christmas images can seem exclusionary to non-Christians...