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Word: silents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honor. Like unctuous clergy defrocking a black sheep priest, they mumbled about heresy and the sovereignty of the faith as if pugilism were the true church of Christ in Everlast and Fat City the terminus of the Celestial Railroad. So, they shore Ali of his title, and with silent supplications for the second coming of the Great White Hope, called for a new idol...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Say It Ain't So, Says Joe | 1/31/1973 | See Source »

...world championship he wanted. His victory in the ring had been decisive. He had boxed Ali to a stand-off and then out-punched him. Yet, it was precisely at that moment when Ali hit the canvas that the emptiness of Frazier's triumph became apparent: the crowd was silent, totally void of enthusiasm. When the decision was announced and Frazier stood arm-raised at center ring, he smiled alone, with difficulty and deep fatigue, in the roped summit of the crowd's ambivalence. From there, he was taken to a hospital...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Say It Ain't So, Says Joe | 1/31/1973 | See Source »

Shortly after the robbers entered the store, a silent alarm, set off accidentally, alerted the police. Within minutes they arrived at the store, just in time to catch the gunmen leaving by a side door. They were using one of the store's owners, Samuel Rosenblum, as a shield. After a rapid exchange of fire, in which one policeman was wounded in the hand and arm, the four men retreated into the gun shop. There they took the twelve people in the store as hostages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Siege at the Gun Shop | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

PALME: Neutrality has never condemned us to be silent on world issues. Never. When we protested against Hungary, Czechoslovakia or the Berlin Wall in fairly strong language, we didn't hear anything from the White House about our neutrality. There is a long-term political objective...It's all right for the superpowers to have detente...Bui one of the dangers is that if the superpowers have a detente among themselves they might feel free to push small countries around. The danger is this, that the enormous power of the superpowers will be a threat to the independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Sweden's Olof Palme: Neutral But Not Silent | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...election to the nation's highest office-was behind him. He had turned a mature 60 and his Inauguration this week for his new and final term was only days away. Yet the question lingered: What was success doing to Richard Nixon? The early evidence was disturbing. Silent, secretive and still suspicious, he seemed to be reaching, in a mood strangely compounded of euphoria and truculence, for greater power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Nixon's Continual Quest for Challenge | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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