Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just hours later, Hinds, looking solemn and remaining silent until the judge spoke to him, pleaded not guilty Friday to one count of murder and six counts of assault...
Cruise missiles were the silent partner in the high-stakes diplomacy going on last week to force Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to halt his brutal siege of Kosovo and negotiate with the province's ethnic Albanians. The U.S. has already used its arsenal of air- and sea-launched cruise missiles to turn out Baghdad's lights during the Gulf War, retaliate against terrorists and assassins, and force the Serbs to the peace table in Dayton, Ohio. Now Serbia and Yugoslav President Milosevic are in the crosshairs again. If the massacres of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo do not stop, NATO warns...
...voice of most of my female friends, who often complain to me, "You know, I just got back from Lamont only to find that no one would confine me, pump me full of alcohol and prey upon me." Thank you, Mr. Oppenheim, for finally giving a voice to the silent female minority who enjoy sexual abuse and harassment. MATTHEW N. STOLLER...
...Angeles. Like actors following the script of a bad sitcom about political correctness, a coalition of black organizations and politicians pulled out the rhetorical artillery to try to force UPN to cancel Pfeiffer (the P, as what passes for witty dialogue on the show constantly reminds us, isn't silent) before it ever airs. "The show trivializes the suffering and pain of African-American people during the period of slavery. It distorts and exploits history and desecrates the bones of our ancestors!" thundered Danny Bakewell, president of the Brotherhood Crusade, a black activist group. Last week he led pickets outside...
...Iron Rinn, ne Ira Ringold, a gangly (6-ft. 6-in.) son of Newark who had circuitously risen, after his military service during World War II, to become a prominent radio actor in Manhattan. Ira's new fame brings rewards. He marries Eve Frame, a one-time star of silent films, then Broadway and now radio, and moves into her elegant Greenwich Village townhouse, where Sylphid, Eve's 23-year-old daughter from a former marriage, also resides...