Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after two years as U.S. Ambassador to India. In the March issue of Commentary, he calls on the U.S. to adopt a tougher stance toward the Third World. He excoriates Americans for an "extraordinarily passive, even compliant" policy that tries-but fails-to appease the developing nations by remaining silent when Third World leaders blame the West for famine and poverty...
Despite the recent indignation over violence in professional hockey, it should not be surprising that the spectator following should be so rabid, particularly in the congested metropolitan areas where legitimate expressions of violence are so limited. Many of the "silent majority" who feel so frustrated, angry and helpless today can readily identify with the beleaguered, assaulted hero of the "war on ice." They experience a vicarious satisfaction from the open aggression and mayhem on the ice, and indeed, it is powerfully exhilarating to let one's emotions "all hang...
Sanders not only proved slow in volunteering this type of information, but he also kept silent on other matters. The basketball team, although big, was far from being one happy family. The squad was hampered by its share of attitude, discipline, and personality problems, ones that were hardly resolved by Sanders's persistent silence. "Satch knew what was going on," said one player, "but he failed to communicate his knowledge to the team...
...Keep Silent. Kung himself claimed victory and said the Vatican was admitting that "the secret inquisitorial proceedings against me were a failure." Other Catholic observers noted that although the Vatican's admonition insisted on the infallibility of the church, it did not explicitly mention the infallibility of the Pope, one of Kung's most celebrated targets. Will Kung now keep silent on the disputed ideas, as the Vatican asks? He hinted that he might: "Right now my mind is turned toward other questions. I do not intend to raise the old ones in future books." But, "I will not tolerate...
...stroke, and clapboard shanties flank it like chips nicked from the blighted elm trees and dusty earth all around. When the highway beads clear of the shanties, the Kansas River sidles up to it instead, with grain elevators on its banks. Just past city limits, my car radio falls silent...