Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson was silent for a 16-minute period before resuming its pressure in the last eight minutes of the first half. This time sophomore midfielder Meredith Stewart was the catalyst...
...pilot's voice was calm, but his distress call described one of an aviator's worst fears: "We have smoke in the cockpit." Eleven minutes later, his radio fell silent, and six minutes after that, Swissair Flight 111 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people onboard. While the cause of that Sept. 2 crash has not yet been determined, investigators have discovered indications of a fire in an electronics compartment below the cockpit, and the presence of smoke made the crash seem eerily similar to that of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades...
Arguing that "African Americans in the United States ought to challenge racism when any group of people is touched by depravity," Dinkins said "too many good people are silent...
...suggested that "surely your personal behavior is as important as your policies," his face went red, and he slapped her down hard. "If you were judging on personal behavior and not policies," he snapped, "then Richard Nixon should have been elected in 1960, not John Kennedy." The room went silent. "It was clear that this guy did not want to hear any criticism," said an official familiar with the meeting...
...Hubbell is barely mentioned in Starr's report. The independent counsel repeats the Hubbell allegation but does not explore it, or any other aspect of Whitewater. (Starr says he has not decided "what steps to take, if any," in referring any other matters to Congress.) The report is also silent on Travelgate and the White House's alleged misuse of fbi files, implying that no impeachable offenses have been uncovered in those matters. As Clinton's defenders like to say, Starr spent four years and $40 million trying to prove substantive presidential wrongdoing, came up dry, and then used Linda...