Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commission; therefore, he must be released because further imprisonment would amount to unjustified punishment. Lest other Mafiosi rejoice too much, the court limited its decision to his case alone. As a result, three other recalcitrant witnesses remain in the Clinton Reformatory, and the commission can continue to coerce silent mobsters with threats of imprisonment. To get out of jail without talking, they will have to use the same long and costly appeals route followed by Catena, since the court stopped short of answering a question raised by its own reasoning: After how many years does coercion become punishment...
...Communism no longer seemed on the ascendant throughout the world, despite such triumphs as Sputnik. Blacks were winning their civil rights. The American genius for production was turning out technologically dazzling goods and mountainous surpluses of food. The campuses were so complacently quiet that people spoke of the Silent Generation. That age turned sour around the end of 1963, with the assassination of John Kennedy and the deepening involvement in Viet Nam. After that, it became harder to cheer a society divided by riots, split by generations, alarmed by drugs and afraid to walk city streets at night...
...asked. Too many vetoes, said some. No focus for the future. A few were uneasy over Ford's old-fashioned talk-too naive, too much like a Boy Scout. His friendship with business and the military establishment has brought up old doubts among traditional liberals who had remained silent for months in their relief at being rid of Nixon. For many Americans, the fact that they did not have to cast a ballot, and thus make a commitment to Ford, has given them license to be fickle...
...chemist. In a rare interview, he said that the most powerful memory of his childhood was hanging around outside a neighbor's door when the man was practicing music. To make money while studying at the Leningrad Conservatory, he tried playing the piano for silent films. Unfortunately he was too busy watching the screen to pay attention to the score. He was sacked...
...There are Dracula dolls, songs, comic books and histories-proving the existence of a 15th century tyrant dubbed Dracul (dragon). Vampire movies have been made almost since the dawn of cinema and, according to Editor Leonard Wolf, there are now more than 200 Draculoid film titles, ranging from the silent Nosferatu to the ethnic exploitation flick Blackula...