Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what about the budget? First, Clinton gave the seven-year balanced budget proposal the "silent treatment." Then, he came forward endorsing a balanced budget--but only if the time-frame were 11 years. Then nine. Now seven--but those pesky Republicans are still "extremists." Funny, isn't it, that most of Clinton's by-now commonplace "about-faces" have been in the Republican direction? One might well wonder whatever happened to the Democratic party...
...idly by, watching politics as a spectator sport, as our collective future is sacrificed. Or we can get involved and send Newt Gingrich and his cronies a message: We are a generation. We have talent, energy and solidarity. If you try to mortgage our future, we will not remain silent. We will fight back...
...tuberculosis, becomes cautious and fearful. He takes a job as a soda jerk and eventually marries one of his customers. She is religious, but Teddy tells her not to expect him to share her faith: "My poor dad wanted to believe and needed to believe and God just stayed silent...
...fell silent for a minute, searching for words...
Though the White House has portrayed Armey as the conservatives' attack dog, he was virtually (and uncharacteristically) silent in these negotiations, as he sat taking copious notes and, as McCurry put it, "kicking Gingrich under the table when necessary." Every so often, though, he had to excuse himself and slip out of the room. Three years ago, the First Lady declared that the entire White House would be a no-smoking zone as long as her husband was President. This means heavy smokers such as Armey had to slip out to the Rose Garden colonnade for a smoking break...