Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deaf are no longer a silent minority...
...state of Texas who could ever hear them without difficulty. That will give some idea of the number of Americans who are deaf or hard of hearing. There are approximately 14 million such people in the U.S., and until very recently they have been the true silent minority, unheard as well as unhearing...
...gray and lifeless mask"; W.H. Auden, "loose from the world and alone, suspended in space." What remains just out of sight is the relentless dilation of every Lindbergh move, the echoes of the kidnaping and murder of the couple's first child, and the inability of the great, silent pilot to make himself understood-except to his wife. In the end, War Within and Without is less history than love story, a testimonial to loyalty and forbearance. Anne concludes: "I write lightly but I do not feel lightly." Nor can any reader, following the progress of two vulnerable souls...
...jackal still wails in Tripura, but a hundred villages are silent. Ever since native tribesmen sacked scores of Bengali immigrant settlements in the northeastern Indian state a fortnight ago, the stench of dead bodies has filled the air. In the worst massacre, in the village of Mandai, the tribals first demanded money, then corralled the Bengalis in the village market. The horrified settlers were forced to watch while tribesmen armed with guns, spears and heavy scythes called daos put the torch to dwellings and butchered their occupants. "There was blood everywhere," says Haradhem Seal, 20, a Bengali barber whose entire...
...lead article--no less than the third in a three-part series--concerns illegal aliens in the Southwest. Or, more accurately, it is about the "Silent Invasion--Brown Tide Threatens America." N.E. McDougald, the author, describes a series of nighttime maneuvers with the fearless men of the U.S. Border Patrol, and then offers his and others' views on the dangers unrestrained immigration presents...