Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heads for a moment in silent prayer to mark the passing of a once-popular political cause--Harvard's divestment movement. Let us not hesitate to shed a few tears--but just a few--to show our sympathy for a movement whose self-righteous style could not generate enough popularity among students to achieve success or insure its survival...
This week Ronald Reagan, who has mostly been silent about AIDS, finally offered his opinion -- and the result could mean that blood tests will be requested from millions of Americans. During a meeting of the Domestic Policy Council attended by both Bennett and Koop, the President expressed bewilderment about objections to testing. "Why should we handle this any - differently than we handled any other epidemic?" he asked. "We have an obligation to protect innocent people." The President's remarks, said one participant, "were in the form of an inquiry, but it was obvious he was making a statement...
...silent conspiracy runs from the police chief, Bailey Rogers, down to everybody else in the town. Only Juanita Olmos, a social worker with a mind for Marx, is willing to divulge any information. Even that information, however, is garnered with great difficulty...
...17th century English Legal Scholar and Judge Sir Edward Coke. Her well-known work Miracle at Philadelphia vividly described the making of the U.S. Constitution. "She cared very much about right and wrong, but not once did she talk to me directly about it," says Bowen. "She was a silent force who set an example in her own living I cannot forget...
...textbook on political-damage control requires the candidate's wife to fly immediately to comfort her beleaguered husband. But for three long days Lee Hart remained silent in the house in Colorado, as campaign officials relayed word that she was suffering from a sinus infection. Political insiders regarded that story with the same skepticism that Kremlinologists apply to news that the Soviet leader has a cold. But in this case the illness was genuine. Not only was the candidate's wife unable to fly, but her left eye was badly swollen. The eye was so inflamed that at one point...