Word: mutedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A fascination with the automobile pervades the area. When I think of the small towns in the valley, the first image that comes to mind is a man, or perhaps two or three, huddled over an engine, pointing to the hoses and speaking in muted voices about the carburetor. Driving...
The late Louis Leakey, for years the dominant male in the field of human- fossil studies, believed that women made better primate researchers than men. His Exhibit A was Jane Goodall, whose work on chimpanzees in Tanzania has been justly celebrated. Exhibit B also achieved acclaim but, on balance, muted...
Jewish groups, at least, have been muted in their response thus far, and are unlikely to mount large protests during the remainder of Mandela's trip. That will remove one potential complication from the hastily arranged tour. It was only on May 11 that 70 supporters of the antiapartheid movement...
Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger brushed aside the suggestion that the lesson of Poindexter is that military men should not head the NSC staff. "They should do a better job of teaching constitutional law at the Naval Academy," he said, noting that Army General Colin Powell successfully held the job...
A cousin, seated on the windowsill, waves a straw whisk broom to keep flies away. As they work, the nurse, the brother and the cousin remain silent, as do the rest of the men lying in nearby beds. Rahmat Hussain moans, "Pain, pain, I feel pain." Once or twice, he...