Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been quietly but purposefully working on issues from securing "fro-yo in the 'Berg" to making cable--at least in the House junior common rooms--a possibility for next semester.... But for all its hard work on these somewhat yawnable student life issues, the council has been conspicuously silent on matters rising higher than television, food and transportation...
About 50 students participated in the filmingof the 90-minute silent film, whose plot revolvedaround a love-sick factory worker who turned tokite-flying for solace...
...participant Nurcholish Madjid, a political observer from the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, when they told Suharto he could not hold on and should step down, he asked, "Can you guarantee that if Vice President Habibie becomes the President, the troubles will end?" The men in the room remained silent, says Nurcholish. "None of us wanted Habibie to be President...
...moment before they say, "I now pronounce you..." That silent moment. But at Jewish weddings, the food...
...works especially well for Milwaukee, Wis., Archbishop Rembert Weakland, since it obliges the Pontiff to sit even with people whose opinions he abhors. "In the early visits," says Weakland cheerily, "one had the feeling if you were saying things he didn't like, he would just go silent on you. The last time I found it easier to engage him in conversation...