Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...independent from these official activities an informal group of alumni from the Class of '57 yesterday held a series of panel discussion and workshops on U.S. foreign policy and political activities for their classmates of the "Silent Generation...
...decisive battle of a gruesome war that has already cost the two adversaries an estimated 100,000 lives and $150 billion. But even though Iraq's forces have retreated almost to the prewar border (see map), the guns along the Shatt al Arab are not about to fall silent. Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, in pursuit of his vendetta against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, has threatened to invade Iraq in an effort to topple...
Once again the internal forces of the presidency have done their silent work. No person with intelligence enough to reach the Oval Office is immune from what the White House aide calls the "sobering process" of seeing the world...
...visitor prepared to leave, Jimmy Carter headed back to his word processor. The house was still silent and dark. He began rewriting a section of the book that describes his closest aides. Some who had read the draft had told him that it was much too soft on them. Engrossed in the work, he pushed himself well past his usual 10:30 bedtime. Day after day, he applied to the book the same drive and ruthless self-discipline he had brought to the presidency. Back home in Plains, he worked as if his very survival as a man depended...
...Warsaw University some 5,000 students walked out of their classes and marched around the campus in silent protest. At the Huta Warszawa steelworks, the site of large-scale resistance following last December's military crackdown, a strike siren wailed at midday, and up to three-fourths of the workers laid down their tools for a quarter of an hour. Entire departments quit work at some other Warsaw factories, and employees at the F.S.O. car plant held a peaceful demonstration outside the plant's gates...