Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policeman must have known the demonstrators would not cause trouble as they watched the protesters start launching kites and playing piccolos. Although the troopers kept silent, they smiled when they threw back the frisbees that occasionally sailed over the fence...
...Shevchenko's skipper, Alexsandr Gupalov, was handed a card advising him in Russian of his right to remain silent and to legal counsel. Ten hours later, after the Coast Guard's request to seize the trawler had been approved by President Jimmy Carter, the boarding party informed Gupalov that his ship was now under U.S. command. As the Stars and Stripes were run up its mast, the trawler started toward Boston harbor. Two days later the cutter Reliance brought in the Snechkus and its cargo of allegedly illegal herring. At week's end the Shevchenko was still...
...last of the seven Watergate burglars still incarcerated, Liddy has steadfastly refused to talk about the conspiracy, or to show, in John Sirica's words, "even a hint of contrition or sorrow." Nonetheless, President Carter last week decided "in the interest of equity and fairness" to commute the silent conspirator's sentence to eight years. He will thus be eligible for parole from the Allenwood, Pa., federal penitentiary next July. Liddy characteristically said nothing at the news, but his lawyer said he was "pleased...
...Diane reacts best when she has some kind of stimulus," says Director Richard Brooks. "We would prepare a scene, and it wouldn't seem to work. Then we would play music, and she would become inventive, let herself go. It was like the old silent days when they would play sad violin music for a sad scene and happy violin music for a happy scene." Brooks believes her Muzak-inspired performance, close to perfect, is proof of her versatility. But Diane, reverting to type, admits that she was scared. "I was very anxious before I made this movie...
...last women's right to vote and black civil rights. As she spoke in the Florida senate of "the same old Southern trail which leads nowhere," sardonic cheering broke out in the gallery among ERA opponents, who were dressed in red. Pro-ERA women, dressed in green, were silent. Said Wilson: "I'm embarrassed for the South...