Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa, and they lie within 500 yards of Tubman's splendiferous $15 million Executive Mansion. But the man in the mansion today, William Richard Tolbert Jr., 59, has plans for reform, and he seems to mean business. Very few Liberians expected anything like that. Tolbert had served 19 silent and subservient years as Vice President under "Uncle Shad." He also came from the same small elite of "Americo-Liberians" who have ruled the country pretty much in their own interests for more than a century. (There are 45,000 Americo-Liberians in a population...
...Majority formed in the U.S. last week, and it was hardly silent...
Verification of this claim, and of her additional allegations that she supplied the CIA with a steady stream of information at the same time she was working for the FBI, can only come from the still-silent CIA or a knowledgeable third source...
Siberia. The Russian name originally meant sleeping land, and so it has been since the beginning of history. For millenniums, men came and went in this vast expanse and scarcely left a mark. Ancient hunters in animal skins tracked the mammoth through the taiga-the deep silent forests of pines and birches. Nomadic tribesmen pushed up from the south, grazing their cattle and roaming on. Then the thunder of horses reverberated across the steppes, bearing the predatory banners of Genghis Khan. Chinese prospectors ranged northward to comb the wilderness for ginseng roots, the source of miraculous cures. The land echoed...
...near Sedona, Ariz., and a newer one in Nova Scotia. His visitors, who stay anywhere from a few days to a year, are Episcopal ministers, Catholic priests, Jews and even atheists. Daily meditation periods include readings from Zen, Hindu and Islamic literature, and participants spend long hours in silent and solitary contemplation amidst wilderness surroundings. One notable visitor to the Arizona retreat was Jesuit Theologian Walter J. Burghardt, a member of the Pope's Theological Commission. "What do I think of it all?" he wrote about his contemplative experiences. "Words impoverish. For it was at once tempestuous and calming...