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Word: silents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever visited a massage parlor? No. Have you seen other women since you were married? No. Have you ever participated in group sex? No. Have you ever used cocaine? No. Hashish? No. Acid? No. Marijuana? No. Heroin? No. Have you ever bought pornography? Yes. His startled questioners were silent. "I bought several hard-core books and magazines for use in my constitutional-law class," Kennedy explained. Everyone laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Judge Next Door | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...best of the bunch are the old people. As Mama, Chungjoon Lee struts across the stage as a matriarch, conversing cutely with her family. And Sagara's ingenious accent and ability to dotter make the character of the grumpy old Chinatown boss. Chen in the silent role of China Mama manages to make her presence felt at the play's tensest moments...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Chinatown, My Chinatown | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

...months LaLonde remained silent while his ex-wife waged a campaign against allowing him visitation or custody of Nicole LaLonde. She even hid the child and went to jail to get the court to investigate her claims. Now that his daughter is being examined and a trial looms, LaLonde has taken center stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LaLonde Says He Never Abused Daughter | 10/14/1987 | See Source »

SCHOOL PRAYER. Two years ago, when the court overturned an Alabama law that provided for a moment of silent "meditation or voluntary prayer" in the public schools, Powell and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in separate concurrences that a simple moment-of-silence law might be constitutional. This week the court will hear arguments concerning a New Jersey law that merely permits a moment of silent "contemplation and introspection." Two lower courts have already found the law unconstitutional, after concluding that despite its neutral language, the statute has a religious purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Eight Enough? | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...years ago and only 2% lower than the men's figure. Some are also aware of studies suggesting that female egos take a subtle but destructive pounding in coed classrooms. A report released last fall by the Carnegie Foundation found that "even the brightest women students often remain silent" in mixed classes. "Not only do men talk more, but what they say often carries more weight." By contrast, at women's colleges, notes Wellesley President Nannerl Keohane, female students not only enjoy "equal * opportunity, but every opportunity." This pays off, she insists, when graduates go out into the real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Why Can't a Woman Be More? | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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