Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something approaching benison. You can be rich or you can be broke, and they will take you in as long as you have spent the past 20 years in the business, from acting to locking the gate, and exceptions are made to that. Viola Dana is here (the classic silent Blue Jeans), and the industry forgot about her when movies began to talk...
Each year more than 600,000 girls under 18 go to federally supported clinics to get contraceptives. Responding to conservative charges that the Government was a silent partner in promoting illicit sex, the Reagan Administration last week formally announced a long-proposed new rule. Starting Feb. 25, clinics receiving federal funds that give birth-control pills or other prescription contraceptives to an unmarried minor must notify the parents within ten working days. Hastening into court, the Planned Parenthood Federation, the American Civil Liberties Union and New York State, among others, contended that this threatened invasion of privacy violates...
...like nothing else on earth. In Lake Okeechobee, the blue-and-purple water hyacinth was higher than our heads. On the coast, blue-and-green water, blue sky roofed with thousands and thousands of white birds overhead. You would be silent, and all you could hear was the wings rustling. One day we sat in our boats through such a sight, with the sun setting, then the moon, as the birds headed into their rookeries, like a bouquet of white flowers, before nightfall...
...cans," a Scientologist "auditor" quizzes him to uncover any embarrassing or painful experiences in his past. All such traumas are recorded. Defectors have claimed that church members are often required to confess their wrongdoings in signed statements, which have sometimes been used as blackmail to keep dissidents silent. In the late 1970s, to supplement dianetics, Hubbard developed the "purification rundown," which he said would rid the body of the ill effects of chemicals, drugs, smog and radiation through the use of vitamins, grain oil, exercise and sauna treatments...
When the Harvard women's swim team arrived in Los Angeles last year for its annual training trip, Coach Vicki Hays tried to recruit someone to help with the driving duties. But when she asked her athletes if any of them had ever driven a van, everyone remained silent...