Word: lippedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When Diana died in Paris on August 31, 1997, the royals' stiff-lipped response provoked outrage from the British people. Chastened, Queen Elizabeth spoke to her subjects one week later, extolling her former daughter-in-law's grace, her charity work and her gift for laughter.
Although the U.S. military remains tight-lipped over any liability for the July 1 incident in which a number of Afghan villagers were killed at a wedding celebration in the remote mountain district of Deh Rawood during an American air attack on suspected Taliban positions nearby, Washington may be letting...
Meanwhile, former highflyers have been falling from grace, signaling to some that Malaysia's crony system was on the way out. Halim Saad of Renong and Tajudin Ramli, who piloted the national carrier Malaysia Airlines to record losses during his eight-year tenancy as CEO, have been replaced by professional...
--MARK THOMPSON is TIME's military correspondent, and in recent weeks he's been scurrying around Washington trying to glean the war's directions by talking with tight-lipped military officers. "I've been reduced to interpreting their grunts, groans, grimaces and grins for TIME's readers," says Thompson. Chat...
With the status of the war in Afghanistan changing almost daily, and with little information being disclosed from the tight-lipped White House, keeping up-to-date on the actions of our government has never been more important.