Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Washington wrote that "to persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny." President Nixon also has persevered, and the results have been impressive. It is not, therefore, altogether inconceivable that in the not too far distant future, Richard Nixon might emerge as the greatest folk hero of them...
...South Vietnamese are no strangers to bombing. Since 1966, an estimated 65% of all American bombs have been dropped on the South, making the mighty B-52 an object of dread and fear. The giant bombers, silent and invisible at 30,000 ft., are first announced by the whistling of scores of falling bombs. On contact, the strike shakes the earth for miles around, raising a holocaust of dust, smoke and debris. Well-dug-in guerrillas can frequently survive an attack, but a peasant in his field has little chance...
...tightly knit and more secretive than its Sicilian counterpart. U.S. agencies have been able to obtain information from all levels of the Mafia clans in the U.S., but not from the Union Corse. "When the Mafioso is spilling his guts," says one U.S. intelligence official, "the Corsican is still silent-refusing even to give you his name." In the early 1960s, for instance, a Union Corse member who called himself Antoine Rinieri was arrested in New York with a suspected narcotics payoff of $247,000 in cash. In the Corsican tradition, he refused to give his real name or explain...
Bill Leonard's eyes snapped with anger. "It's a preposterous piece," he complained, "preposterous." Leonard, senior vice president of CBS News, then sat silent in his makeshift Miami Beach office, loathing William Shannon's New York Times column one more time...
...summer has been the White House campaign to jawbone automakers into withdrawing proposed price increases ranging upward from $90 a vehicle. Last week the Cost of Living Council, which has been prodding the companies to shave their proposed increases, evidently decided to settle for a partial victory. It remained silent and thus tacitly accepted offers from General Motors and Ford to reduce the increase to $59 per car or truck. The requests now go to the Price Commission, which is almost certain to grant them-though only after public hearings that will hold up the boosts until a month...