Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Updike comments on the reputation of his class as the "silent generation": "We didn't question the in- tervention (in Korea). The idea that nations now and then fought was an unquestioned assumption. There was no doubt that America was the strongest and happiest nation in the world and opportunities were what we made them...
Whatever the cause of the engine's breakaway, some investigators doubted eyewitness reports that all of the plane's three engines had gone silent. They theorized that the breakaway of the engine at a moment of maximum thrust, and with the plane fully loaded, had unbalanced the weight at a critical moment. Investigators also suspected that what some witnesses thought was fuel escaping from the wing might have been hydraulic fluid, which would have deprived Captain Lux of critical controls to maintain flight...
...controversial John Silber, head of the university. "It is hard enough being a president these days. At least that is what I am told," bellowed the senior Senator from Massachusetts. "I, of course, don't have any firsthand experience at it." He paused a few seconds as the silent audience waited. Then he added what they all suspected he would: "Yet!" The crowd erupted with a roar of approval...
These typical cases represent violations of one of medicine's sacred trusts: the patient's right to privacy. Under a credo that goes back to the Hippocratic oath, a physician is required to keep silent about what he is told or learns of a patient's condition. But lately the tradition is being more honored in the breach...
Boudreau said the protesters will march to Draper Laboratories, a developer of nuclear weapons guidance systems, after the rally to hear more speakers and for a silent vigil...