Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Four platoons (200 troops) meet in a silent hollow for final briefing. Another 40 lieutenants, located elsewhere, are the "aggressors." Duden smears black and olive green camouflage paint on her face, then loads rounds of blank ammunition into her M16. "You each get 60 rounds," yells a commander. "They have to last you until tonight...
...Congress had approved the program, undergraduate volunteers would have assisted Chaisson in using the presently silent 26-meter Agassiz Radio Telescope, located in Harvard, Mass., to listen in on 350 stars considered most likely to support extra-terrestrial civilizations...
Last week Hines sat silent and motionless as he went on trial for "forcibly ravishing" one of three white women he has been accused of raping. In addition to the police version of Hines' story, which included his escape in a car, two of the three victims identified him at a preliminary hearing. The trouble is that Hines, who had never been in trouble before, has a mental age of six years and an IQ in the 30s. Says his father, Richard Hines: "They had Tommy driving a car. That boy can't even ride a bicycle...
...After six days of shelling, the guns are still not silent, and there are reports that people in East Beirut are starving. A woman reached by telephone describes what is happening: 'We live in the cellar of our building. There are some nuns with us and they pray, but the bombs keep falling. We finished our last tin of corned beef -one spoonful for each person. There is only half a gallon of water left, but we don't dare go up into the streets. When a dying dog came into our shelter, a boy said he would...
Murdoch was discreetly silent about his motives last week, but there was no shortage of taproom psychoanalysis about why he went his own way. It had been said that he would make permanent the New York Daily Metro, a strike paper he financed, then fold the Post and go after the morning markets controlled by the Times and the News. Yet the Metro died the day the Post resumed publishing. Still, Murdoch men are not ruling out a future morning tabloid, probably along the lines of his spicy and sensational London Sun. It was also said that Murdoch rushed into...