Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...derided President Bush's Middle East maneuvers, saying, "I don't believe you should be evenhanded between the people who share your values and have been your staunch allies -- always, without exception -- and people who have not." One can only hope that to further peace, a President Cuomo would mute such talk, but then again the Governor is famous for saying exactly what he means and acting accordingly...
...more I think about the question, the more hardened is my view that Europe is dashing too fast toward political union. With the Soviet Union's implosion, the EC faces no external threat that can mute the expression of its intense national rivalries and important power asymmetries. In this context, real, lasting unification is impossible...
...hurt that Braves partisans urged the team on with toy tomahawks and a war-chant mantra, which the votaries could moan for innings on end (the dumbest mass spasm since the Wave). By playoff time, the Braves were high and loose. All the Pirates' edgy swagger could not mute the magic -- or solve the riddle of a brilliant Atlanta pitcher, as young and ageless as Lefty Grove...
...wheel. "All right, you folks, I want those two seats," the facsimile driver will say. "Y'all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those two seats." In the middle of the bus, a plaster of Paris simulacrum of Rosa Parks will just sit there, a mute symbol of the incident that sparked the epic Montgomery bus boycott. "Look, woman, I told you I wanted the seat!" the mock voice of the bus driver will continue. "Are you going to stand up?" The plaster statue of Parks will remain motionless...
Woodrow Wirsig shudders to recall his wife Jane's gradual 10-year decline from Alzheimer's disease. At the low point, she was mute and immobile. But then in 1987, as part of an experimental program, she was put on the drug tacrine. "Within weeks," says Wirsig, of Palm City, Fla., "she could walk and talk and recognize me from 90 ft." Such stories have given tacrine a reputation as a Lazarus drug, the one medication that could recall to life loved ones who are losing control of their minds and bodies...