Word: silent
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When you first meet sophomore Marcus Way, you can’t help but notice his calm and quiet demeanor, but when he steps up to the plate, he’s anything but silent with the bat. Way can hang with the best of them when it comes to knocking the hide off the ball and sending it over the fence...
...hand? Impressive. Though no wonder they made the mistake—the bindery probably thought the terminal silent "e" was from an olde-tymey spelling—but it turns out that “Radcliffe” is actually the more modern spelling of the college’s namesake, Anne Radcliffe, whose name was often spelled “Radclyffe...
Harvard’s bats were all but silent in the early going. Yet, while the Crimson was able to get lead-off singles in the first, fourth, and fifth innings, it remained hitless throughout the rest of the first five innings...
Maybe Bertone should have taken the silent route too. Gay-rights groups around the world lashed out at the comment, starting with Chilean activist Rolando Jimenez, who called it part of a "perverse strategy by the Vatican to try to escape its own responsibility" for allowing abusive priests to go unchecked. More telling was criticism from within the church. U.S.-based Jesuit writer Father James Martin publicly took on Bertone, disputing the research behind the theory and pointing out that the Pope himself declined to cite a correlation between homosexuality and sex abuse of minors when asked by reporters...
...whatever Fidesz's plans may be - the party was largely silent about its economic policies during the campaign - there is no doubt that Hungary is now gripped by a new sense of hope, a sentiment painfully absent from the political scene in recent years. "I really think this is a new beginning," says Monika Szente, a 37-year-old teacher living in Budapest. "I am very, very enthusiastic. Change won't happen overnight, but if anyone can solve the problems in this country, Fidesz...