Word: muted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, Cornell had a first-and-goal in the third quarter Saturday, but the Harvard fans were dead. You could hear the Cornell fans urge their team on, but before it got to third down, the Harvard side was mute...
With Clinton's approval in hand, Jonassaint signed the agreement. The Defense Minister quit on the spot. Cedras sat mute. Then Powell asked him point-blank if he would accept the agreement. Cedras stood erect and pledged his word of honor that he would "obey the command of my president...
...been mute since the age of six and for whom the piano is her only voice, is devastated by its loss. She turns to George Baines (Harvey Keitel), an illiterate neighbor of theirs who has "gone native." Baines eventually makes a deal with Stewart, trading the piano for a piece of land. As part of the deal, Ada is forced to give Baines lessons. He's not interested in learning to play, and so he offers to give Ada back her piano if she allows him to do certain things while she plays, one key for every lesson...
...know about the universe includes the fact that it is an incredibly violent place. The nighttime sky is a panoply of explosions. The pocked and cratered face of our moon -- which was also on TV last week, thanks to a triumphant moment everyone had seen 25 years ago -- bears mute witness to eons of shuddering collisions. Given what we may infer from such signs, the pummeling of Jupiter could have been a commonplace affair...
...that America was better than China. Yet in the everyday dealings of her parents with a world that they did not understand and that accorded them little dignity, the family found ample evidence that America was far worse. This contradiction, among all the others, drove the pubescent Kingston into mute inertia, symbolized on stage by the heroine's spending most of an act strapped into a bed dangling from the ceiling...