Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them seriously." Naturally, the heroes of the day were the valiant Chinese undergraduates. It was just the chance that students back home in Red China had been waiting for. Marching over to Peking's Soviet embassy, several hundred massed in front of the building in silent protest at the manhandling of their colleagues in Moscow...
...Black Nationalist Phillip Matante ("the Lion of Bechuanaland") and Peking-oriented Motsamai Mpho. At one political rally, a back-country tribesman who could not pronounce the word democratic referred to the party as Domkrag-Afrikaans for automobile jack. Seretse adopted the jack as his party symbol ("It represents slow, silent power"), and last week it lifted him to victory. The red counters designating Seretse's B.D.P. flooded the ballot boxes, and 28 of the 35 seats in Bechuanaland's newly-elected legislative assembly went to his candidates...
...doing something illegal together," says one teenager. Another part, obviously, is the hallucinatory effect: "You think a lot of trivial thoughts -millions of little tiny thoughts go racing through your head." One girl, trying to capture such fantasies while high, wrote: "Notes from hemp head. Oh dear, the silent nothing around is very silent and very nothing. Outside seems terribly distant. I hear people talking and they are funny-because I am listening with illegal ears...
Brown University has expelled eight undergraduates for using marijuana. The university had remained silent about rumors of an early December off-campus marijuana party involving up to 16 Brown and Pembroke students despite inquiries from the Brown Daily Herald, the UPI and the Providence journal...
While Charles de Gaulle has not hesitated to trumpet or try to exploit the vulnerability of the dollar, he has been strangely silent about mounting economic problems at home. Other Frenchmen are less reticent. Premier Georges Pompidou admits that the French economy has shown "a certain slowing of growth, even a stagnation of production." The usually docile Patronat-French equivalent of the National Association of Manufacturers-is so disturbed by the letdown that it has formally criticized government economic policies for the first time in memory. In Paris recently, a cartel of steel producers met to survey France...