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Word: mutes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case with the help of flow charts and excerpts from recorded conversations printed on large posters. The defendant followed each statement intently, occasionally running a restless hand through his mane of silver hair. In the front row, his wife Cristina, actress and model, shook her head in mute exasperation at the prosecutor's charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: De Lorean vs. Almost Everybody | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...wake of Aquino's slaying, more than a million citizens took to the streets of Manila, marching on the President's Malacañang Palace and calling outright for his resignation. But Marcos shrewdly countered their attacks with a string of concessions that were accommodating enough to mute some criticism yet narrow enough to prevent real change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: All the President's Men | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...children and youth of America are politically mute, and for this reason have suffered the worst onslaught from the policies of the current Administration Reagan has consistently ignored and misinterpreted the problems of children...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Keeping An Eye on the Children | 3/15/1984 | See Source »

...Saints". Instead of being perceived as whole persons, their bodies became shrines what was thought to be their minds became temples suitable for worship. These crazy Saints stared out at the world, wildly, like lunatics or quietly, like suicides, and the "God" that was in their gaze was as mute as a great stone...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Beyond Feminism | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

...image of a folksy get-together among Jim and Sally and Ivan and Anya, who quickly bridge the ideological divide between their governments. The Soviet leader made fun of Reagan's rhetorical tactics and challenged him to match his "speeches" with "practical deeds." Nonetheless, the Soviets began to mute their rhetoric somewhat. The Soviet press stopped portraying the President as a new Hitler, and leaders backed away from Andropov's statement of Sept. 28 suggesting that the Kremlin had abandoned any hope of doing business with the Reagan Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Bury a Hatchet | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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