Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They grabbed several screaming (collaborating) students from their dinner places, blasted them with cap pistols, left them to writhe in a "guerilla-theatre" death agony, and then ran around the dining hall tossing leaflets onto tables. COCA then announced themselves and their purpose to the silent student diners, in much the way the Dins or the Veritones do, and cleared out, cap guns...
...technological balance of power in the world. The Americans may own the missiles, for example, but they cannot fly straight without Japanese semiconductors. Japan, Ishihara argues, must use its technological leverage to assume its rightful place in the world. No longer must the country walk a respectful, and silent, three steps behind...
Against Yale, the Crimson scored two first period goals and then was shut out for the remainder of the game. Saturday, Harvard tallied three times against Brown in the first frame, but its guns fell silent in the final two periods...
...cards and getting some final dabs of makeup. With only seconds to spare, he bops downstairs, wades through a phalanx of enthusiastic staffers, then darts behind a blue translucent curtain. The band blares, the announcer wails. Hall sinks to one knee for a few seconds of silent prayer. Then he slides over to his mark and assumes his opening pose: head bowed, legs apart, hands pressed together...
...rehearsed, along with the inner torment that destroyed Nixon's judgment. But he also begins to appear as much more a product of his time and place than many care to admit. If he frequently exploited the country's most base instincts, he also reflected legitimate resentments. The silent majority he mobilized survived him, eventually evolving into the right-wing populist movement that anointed Ronald Reagan...