Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seconds the Garden was silent. Then the convention's most tumultuous demonstration erupted, ignoring Chairman O'Neill's attempt to order a roll call on the Kennedy economic planks. The Senator's adherents danced, sang and chanted, "We want Teddy!" O'Neill wisely gave up, signaled the convention band to join in the fun with medleys of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, Macnamara's Band and Happy Days Are Here Again...
...ships were superb performers. Because of a surprisingly effective design and careful use of fuel, they far exceeded their anticipated lifetime of 90 days. Before the demise of the orbiters-the first went silent in 1978-they sent back 51,539 photographs, including a final series of color views of Tharsis Ridge, site of three major volcanoes with an average elevation of 17 km (10.8 miles) and two smaller ones. Besides confirming past volcanic activity, Viking provided closeup glimpses of the reddish, rocky Martian soil, monitored weather changes including violent dust storms and discovered significant quantities of water (as atmospheric...
...alienates the bullies in his new class. They threaten to mangle him unless he forks over his lunch money. So Cliff finds a bodyguard, hulking Ricky Linderman (Adam Baldwin) who, the rumor goes, has killed a kid, raped a teacher, and shot a cop. Cliff eventually wins over the silent, secretive Ricky, and the two score a rousing--and hilarious--final victory over the bullies who have tormented them since...
Prime Minister Menachem Begin had for weeks remained uncharacteristically silent in the face of mounting public criticism of his policies by prominent American Jews, but last week the Israeli leader spoke out. In an open letter to one of his most persistent critics, Leonard Fein, the editor of the U.S. Jewish monthly Moment, Begin said: "On matters that relate to the national security of this little nation in the land of Israel, please refrain from proffering advice, at least in public, within earshot of our enemies who conspire to do us evil...
...trio of feminists arrived in Vienna last week via a special Aeroflot flight. Though dazed by their expulsion, they still showed defiance. Said Tatyana Goricheva: "For 60 years Soviet women had remained silent. With the double workload -jobs and housework-they had no time to open their mouths. But now the women's movement is gaining ground." Goricheva, 32, told how the KGB harassed their magazine from its inception. The editors were repeatedly summoned by the KGB for interrogation and followed wherever they went. Their homes were searched in an effort to find the first typewritten issue, of which...