Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quietly notes: "All the old generation has just about died out, and the young pull out. Maybe they work timber for a time, or maybe they mine. But them that can, goes." When they go, they leave behind the last of the silent, durable old men who make corn likker by the light of the moon...
...Prudent who is Patient is the motto of the British House of Leicester. So patient was the second Earl of Leicester that he spent all of his 67 years in the House of Lords waiting for something to say. His son, the third Earl was equally silent for 32 years. The fourth Earl kept up the family tradition, but the legendary Leicester patience has at last run out. The present Earl, 63-year-old Thomas William Edward Coke has risen after only 22 years of silence to make his maiden speech. His subject: pollution. "I hope we shall use safer...
Despite the Instant Analysis and the Effete Snobs, the Silent Majority supports Vietnamization, and the steady Winding Down has allowed our allies to Hack It. On the domestic side, though, the Game Plan could use a little Benign Neglect...
...Nixon and that empyreal employer of epigram, Spiro Agnew. Since the language of politics is essentially the lexicon of propaganda, the tone of the Nixonisms reflects what are perceived to be the shifting moods and needs of the nation. Thus, Safire observes, the Great Unwashed is undesirable, while the Silent Majority is praiseworthy. Nixon's critics, says Safire, have manufactured their own verbal ammunition, such as Nixonomics and Southern Strategy...
...Sacramento, Calif., and Sioux City, Iowa. The commercials feature a tall, lean cowboy who looks like a refugee from Marlboro country. He pops out of nowhere and steals another man's girl at the beach, on a lonely road or at a sidewalk café. Each time, the silent, saturnine cowboy offers the girl a Winchester; the two take a few puffs, exchange febrile glances and go off together as the announcer chants: "Ain't no cigarette. Ain't just another little cigar. It's a whole 'nother smoke...