Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orbs high in the sky. Over on the side, the moon. It is full, bright, and irrelevant. And in the center, 120 feet above the diamond, the ball is frozen. Sweep down to the plate. Carl Yastrzemski is wound up in an arc, his face etched in a wide, silent scream. Sweep around in a dizzy circle. Thirty thousand necks upstretched, lungs roaring up in desperation. Sweep wider, around a city, a hundred miles, New England. The energy of a million stored-up workday hells turned to fervent belief, poised. All that energy, with a terrific whoosh, tornados up from...
Charles A. Modernne Indianapolis During the antiwar years, protesters were called subversives and Commies for speaking out against the Viet Nam War and turning the American flag upside down. Now those people who sup ported that illegal war (silent majority, etc.) are out protesting busing, burning buses, turning cars and the American flag over...
...sign that the military wing is winning the debate came last week in a promise issued by E.T.A. officials in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, just across the French border, that the E.T.A. would avenge the executions of its members by striking back at "political leaders of the Franco regime." Silent support for such a bloody strategy seems to be rapidly growing among the Basques. "No one is neutral any more," said one Basque lawyer to TIME Correspondent George Taber in Bilbao last week. "Franco has polarized everyone here. You're either pro-E.T.A. or pro-Franco, and there...
Douglas, 76, since last April, when he returned briefly to the court after his January stroke. But they had heard dismaying reports, notably that he had sat vacantly for 9% painfully silent minutes before rendering an oral decision at a hearing last month in Yakima, Wash., near his vacation retreat. Had he merely been considering the decision, or had the stroke decisively dimmed one of the brightest minds on the court? Now the Justices would render their own verdict...
Last week Lyons' voice was suddenly silent. He had turned in his last columns to the National Catholic Register and Twin Circle (combined weekly circulation: 162,000), left his Manhattan office and headed west. Days later, he walked into the Portland, Ore., headquarters of his Jesuit superior, the Very Rev. Kenneth Galbraith, and stunned him by asking for a leave of absence, with the intention of ultimately seeking release from his priestly vows. After all the dropouts in recent years, "I thought I was through with being surprised," says Galbraith, "but I was surprised...