Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witnesses and make arguments. A witness or "target" can invoke his Fifth Amendment right against selfincrimination, but in most states he cannot bring his lawyer in to the grand jury room. Even where he can, the lawyer is powerless to do much more than tell his client to keep quiet...
...Samuel Loring Morison, too, hardly seemed an obvious suspect. A quiet and scholarly analyst at the Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., he is the grandson of the Pulitzer-prize-winning naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison. He was arrested last week after his fingerprints were found on the originals of three classified satellite pictures of a new Soviet aircraft carrier that appeared in the Aug. 11 issue of a British defense magazine...
...white temple it is always quiet. No lobbyists or reporters hover about the paneled chambers; tall bronze gates seal off the cool marble passageways from the public. The black-robed Justices emerge onto the high bench only to hear the arguments of deferential lawyers, and then vanish again behind a thick velvet curtain. They deliberate in secret, insulated and remote from the hurly-burly of American politics...
...according to Garvey. Three players, including Pitching Ace Eric Show, have publicly embraced the John Birch Society without encountering much local disapproval. Also it was a summer of mean news in San Diego: 21 people massacred at the San Ysidro McDonald's, two police officers killed in a quiet park, and the mayor is under indictment for perjury. More than the baseball standings seem akilter...
...shell in the warm atmosphere of the Spaulding's farm. One of the most effective scenes comes when he and Possom, Edna's young daughter, stand outside a room in which Frank, her brother, is "getting a licking." Terrified by the sounds of whipping within, Possom quietly slips her hand into Mr. Will's. The simple gesture and the expression of bewilderment and joy that slowly spreads across Mr. Will's face convey a host of emotions in a moment. Quiet scenes like these which move without constitute the film's greatest triumph...