Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrow gully bakes like an oven in the fall sun, and the canyon that engulfs it is silent, save for an occasional magpie's cry. Under a juniper, two cowboys hunch for shade and wait for a signal...
...works. It succeeds to the point of mesmerization. One is not necessarily convinced by Napoleon, yet one cannot help but be taken in by it. For a silent film originally released 54 years ago--and for all intents and purposes lost for all those years--to reappear in a different world and have this kind of power is perhaps what the phrase "enduring artistic vision" actually means...
...states where the amendment has not yet passed: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia. Conservative legislators and lobbyists have led a sophisticated campaign to block ratification, while the citizens who favor the ERA have remained largely silent or called the amendment a dead issue...
...hundred people were crowded into the gymnasium of the Longfellow School where the votes were being counted; the audience included nearly every politico in the city, and normally they are a talkative bunch. But when it came time to start distributing the votes, they grew absolutely silent, waiting to hear the calls of the elderly women who would examine the ballots and announce where they were going. "Duehay...Russell...Danehy...Dane hy...Wolf...Danehy...
...traditionally the lowest-achieving of all New York City districts in reading, a prickly Follow Through class is doing well. Eight children sit in a reading group in Sadie Martin's first-grade classroom. Martin holds up a manual with words printed in DlSTAR's script. Silent letters are written smaller than the rest. Consonant clusters, like wh, are joined together to indicate that they should be pronounced together. At Martin's signal, the group choruses the sound and then puts the word together phonetically...