Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reagan speech is no Gettysburg Address, but it lights up the audience. Sample warm-up joke: A man in traction in a hospital pays no attention to the visitor bending anxiously over him. Finally, the patient opens his eyes and explains in a discreet Irish brogue that he kept silent because he wanted to savor the moment: "It's been six months here since I've had a drink, and your breath is like the rain from heaven...
...disclose anything they learn from a client that clearly bears on his guilt, encouraging judges to call their own witnesses and requiring the defendant to face a judge's questions in front of the jury?which could then draw conclusions if he exercised his Fifth Amendment privilege to remain silent...
...appeared on the stage in 1963, there has been a nonstop debate over the explosive question raised by the German playwright: Could Pope Pius XII have done more to save six million European Jews from extermination during World War II? Six books have explored the thesis that by remaining silent he became an accomplice to genocide. The issue was even aired for almost two years in a Rome civil court, when American Author Robert Katz was accused of defaming the Pontiffs memory in Massacre in Rome, a 1973 film that alleged Vatican inaction in the face of an impending atrocity...
Moral Resolution. If, in fact, the Brown decision had been made on strictly legal grounds, that challenge might have been thwarted. The Constitution is silent on the subject of racial minorities; nor can it be argued with certainty that the 14th Amendment was meant to support integration. (At the time it was passed, 24 out of 37 states either required or permitted segregated schools...
...currently under fire in the grand duchy's parliament, and may soon be put under an oversight committee in the legislature. Socialist Jean Gremling, who might be called Luxembourg's Frank Church, argues that "we don't want to be part of the silent war between secret service organizations here." That, of course, is just one more confirmation that the silent war in the grand duchy is uncomfortably real...