Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Martha was diminutive in stature and notoriously soft-spoken. But as our book critic Paul Gray says, "Her voice in print was firm and unmistakably her own. She never raised her voice when annoyed, but her colleagues would have rather endured tongue-lashings from other editors than face her silent disapproval." She spoke and wrote in a style that was flinty and spare; she was allergic to rhetoric. "Oh dear," she would gently say, lips pursed but eyes slightly smiling, as she crossed out a writer's phrase that was more ornate than enlightening. As a result, her words...
...place where people remain wary at all times, furtively darting their eyes from left to right in an almost-reflexive attempt to gauge the status of the person next to them. There are no formal, verbalized rules of etiquette, just a silent code of conduct governing the vast unknown: thou shall not make accidental physical contact with thy seat mate; thou shall not speak; thou shall not meet another's gaze. To do any of the aforementioned would immediately render one "psycho," society's swift condemnation on deviation...
ALEXANDRIA, Virgina: Often known as "the silent killer," diabetes may soon have one fewer place to hide. In an effort to identify the estimated 8 million Americans who have the disease but don't know it, the American Diabetes Association has called for all adults 45 and older to be tested for adult-onset diabetes every three years. The Association also dramatically lowered the blood glucose threshold that alerts doctors to the disease. Previously, "normal" glucose levels were at least 140 milligrams per decileter of blood plasma. New research shows that repeated blood sugar levels...
That was about all she could manage. Treanor dissolved, her body racked by sobs, and almost everyone in the courtroom dissolved with her. Jurors wept openly, survivors wailed, reporters groped for hankies and sodden bits of tissue. Through it all sat McVeigh, cold and silent as stone. At that moment in that room, it seemed inconceivable that the jury could do anything but sentence him to death--and that anything but simple vengeance would be the reason why. When the day's testimony was over, even Matsch looked shaken. "You're human, and I'm human too," he told...
...execution chambers, even the most antiseptic, stand as silent, smirking answers that blanch the irony out of St. Paul's question "O Death, where is thy sting?" Death comes in several varieties. It can be incongruously vibrant like "Yellow Mama," the electric chair in Alabama used last week for the execution of ex-Klansman Henry Hays. Or death can have the rustic decrepitude of the gallows in Delaware, which remains in operation. But on every chamber hang the words inscribed in Dante's Inferno: "Abandon all hope you who enter here...