Word: silentes
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...French, who have had their share of terrorist battles with Algerian, Islamist and pro-Palestinian groups, are much more circumspect, telling the public to watch their backs when there's danger afoot but remaining studiously silent about what drove them to issue a warning. "Why do you want plotters aware you know even a portion of what you've discovered?" asks a French security official...
...last six elections, the Republican candidate has only attained victory on the wings of an NRA endorsement. When the NRA stood silent in 1992 and 1996, the Democrats won handily. The man who won those elections, Bill Clinton, maintains that on the pecking order of determining factors in the 2000 Bush victory, the NRA stands next to Ralph Nader, behind only the Supreme Court, potentially costing Gore critical states such as Arkansas, West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida and New Hampshire...
...after day I plow through the tropical heat, stewing in my silent rage. When I turn around there’s no signal, no wave, and no hesitation. That’s why I had to tailgate the Toyota, and all during the low-speed chase I thought about the monster I’ve become...
...their child," Booth reports. "It worked time and again and I got to study - close up - such marvels as Audemars Piguet, Longines and Vacheron et Constantin gold watches, emeralds as green as still water and as big as peas, and Rolliflex and Leica cameras with a shutter movement so silent you could not hear it. All of these I gazed at with the avidity of a magpie. At times, the palms of my hands actually itched with temptation and desire." He encounters a woman with bound feet, a waiter whose tongue was cut out by the Japanese as a punishment...
...Congress, especially those in the majority party, do whatever the president wants them to do,” he added. “If he says jump, they jump. If he says be quiet, they—and, sadly, too many in my own party—we remain silent...