Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worldly-wise, members of my own sex tsked at me warningly or smiled enigmatically (An unsatisfactory verbal rendering might be, "Foolish urchin, she'll get what's coming to her, like it or not."), while men couldn't get it through their heads that I wasn't beaming a silent plea for companionship. Slips of paper scrawled with undecipherable names of meaningless splotches on the globe flutter out of my wallet now and then...
...Great Hall. The broad T'ien An Men Square, where Mao had once reviewed well-drilled throngs, was empty of traffic except for a line of diplomatic cars. Dominating the scene were two giant black-and-gold-draped portraits of the Chairman. Chinese mourners, forming a silent wave of gray and blue, slowly climbed the broad steps leading into the Great Hall, moving from the bright afternoon sunlight beneath the twelve massive concrete columns and the army guard at the black-bordered entrance...
...bussed kids lining up in one line and the white kids arriving on foot in another, and I'll tell you if there had been one rock thrown or one racial slur escaped, we would have seen a fight they'd never stop talking about. But they stood silent, and it was calm, and the kids did it," Winegar says...
...bussed kids lining up in one line and the white kids arriving on foot in another, and I'll tell you if there had been one rock thrown or one racial slur escaped, we would have seen a fight they'd never stop talking about. But they stood silent, and it was calm, and the kids did it," Wineger says...
...advice, but instead left four numbered envelopes with instructions to open them in sequence as campus crises arose. Sure enough, trouble came soon, and the young chief executive opened the first envelope. The message inside: "Balance your budget. " When new problems developed, the president twice more consulted his silent mentors. "Form a committee," read the second note; "Make a new five-year plan, "said the third. After a period of relative calm, another crisis ensued, and the president, after opening the fourth envelope, slumped in his chair. The suggestion: "Prepare four envelopes...