Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front of a suite of black students' rooms in the Yard), said that students who were involved in civil liberties issues were a distinct minority on campus. "Some of us were very active in fighting loosely defined 'anti-subversive' state legislation but on the whole ours was indeed the silent generation." Even those who were involved in civil liberties issues "were often hawks on foreign policy...
...eyed silence millions watched the purgatorial unpeeling of the Nixon soul as angel hosts intoned, "Will he ever say to the silent Witness, "God be merciful to me a sinner and save me for Jesus' sake'?" Colson and Magruder did it; why can't Richard Nixon...
...fated Moscow meeting. Vance avoided almost all contact with the press in Geneva. So, of course, did Gromyko. As he and Vance posed for photographers beneath a big portrait of Brezhnev at the Soviet mission, a reporter asked him how the talks were going. Said Gromyko: "We are silent like fish." Equally pleasing to the Soviets must be the recent low-decibel level of the Administration's human rights drive...
...officers and soldiers were convicted of "carrying out illegal orders"--and given extraordinarily light sentences, which were subsequently shortened still more. After continued public recrimination, the commander responsible for the original orders was put on trial--and fined one piastre for a "technical error." Yet, the press was largely silent about Israel's "My Lai." Neither Deir Yassin nor Kfar Kassim was an isolated incident; Juryis documents numerous similar, if less dramatic incidents...
...thought Yale would be there the whole way, and so we planned to move by with a strong and silent power ten in the last half mile," number three Cynthia Strong said yesterday...