Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mouth. And then, with an ecstatic dive, he plummeted free into the deep. We were beaten, but there were no regrets on board. The one that got away had put up a furious fight. The memory would last. There would be other nights to float on the black and silent sea and wait for the electrifying moment when a broadbill would nose up from the depths, ready to duel with anyone who waited to challenge...
Republican backbenchers started chanting: "Tip! Tip! Tip! Tip!" They were daring Speaker of the House Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill to break the tie and rescue the President, his fellow Democrat. But O'Neill remained silent, doing nothing. Not only was he deeply committed to the embargo but also he was furious at the Administration for the dismissal of his old friend, Robert T. Griffin, from the General Services Administration. Other Democratic leaders, however, were frantically mobilizing support-for opposite sides. Indiana's John Brademas, the Democratic whip and a leader of the pro-Greek lobby, was fighting...
When the guns finally fell silent in Ann Arbor, the battlefields were littered with cigarette butts, empty Coke bottles and hot dog wrappers. The victors trooped home bearing 69 engraved plaques and 225 runners-up certificates (the Fort Carson Army group suitably took first prize in the NATO armored battle simulation...
...Administration remained officially silent on the results, perhaps taking a lesson from its inept handling of last winter's coal strike, when Carter went on television to proclaim the strike settled only to have the miners reject the pact in a ratification vote. The postal contract still has to be ratified by the membership of four separate unions in votes that begin next week. Having leaned on the Postal Service to hang tough in the negotiations, the White House was not eager to be seen gloating over the result. Said one Carter adviser: "We want to do anything...
Some of the nicer things screamed at my daughters and me by the anti-ERA band as we stood in silent vigil at the Illinois state capitol were, "Your daughter will be drafted," and "She will have to live in the barracks with men, and the men will attack her." Another told us that we were homosexuals and lesbians...