Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mainstreamed, she said, but still concentrated in specific schools, "so you have a whole row of wheelchairs, not just one or two." The teacher hung her head. "I apologize; we do that," she said. Bill would have salved her ego. Hillary asked for another question, but for a long, silent moment, there weren't any. Her listeners didn't want to cross swords with her, and who could blame them? But when the session was over, they all came up for autographs...
Even though I was there for only one day, I miss my friends in Iowa. They weren't tough and silent like I'd expected but welcoming and open. I know if I ever go back, they'll always be there for me. After all, I buy them beer...
Bush, for his part, bemoans the culture of partisanship and gridlock in Washington but is mostly silent about the system that funds it. He proposes lifting the $1,000 limit on individual contributions and requiring full disclosure of contributors. But, says McCain, "that's basically the system we have today. The restrictions we have now are a facade." The Senator's current plan, in his McCain-Feingold bill, would ban the unlimited contributions known as "soft money" that corporations, lobbyists and unions can give to national parties, and it would restrict outside, allegedly "independent" groups from running ads to help...
...quickest draws on the peninsula. This week President Clinton is scheduled to submit to Congress an $8 billion, 20-year plan to restore the Everglades, the most massive environmental project ever undertaken in the U.S. Native Americans are usually cast as p.r. decor during campaigns like this: the sad, silent Indians lamenting pollution on TV spots. But this time, Cypress is determined to "do something a lot of politicians and environmental groups don't always like Indians to do: speak." And win lawsuits. The tiny tribe has seized a leading role in the Everglades restoration by outmaneuvering some of Florida...
When she married Fairbanks in 1920, the two reigned as Hollywood's king and queen in their legendary home, Pickfair. He was the athletic bon vivant, she the gracious princess. But the poetic silent picture was replaced by the prosaic talkie, and Pickford was finally too old for her girlish grit to be convincing. She made her last film in 1933 at 40, and within a few years Jack, Lottie and Doug were dead. Bereft, she quietly drank herself to oblivion, pickled in Pickfair. By her death in 1979, only a few oldsters could recall Little Mary with anything like...