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Word: silents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among them every day. They were accustomed to her and accepted her. She came among them like a ghostly premonition of their evolutionary future, a benevolent spirit out of the time warp, another civilization. She came from space. She sat among them holding her clipboard, and made silent notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...play unfolds around the relatively silent and austere Jeanine Cendrars, played with an otherworldly grace by the avant-garde dancer Lucinda Childs. Mrs. Cendrars is discovered wandering through the snowy woods at the curtain, lost, having "taken a wrong turn. "She is "rescued" and whisked, almost against her will, to the lobby of the Richelieu, where she finds a warm welcome and her luggage--which she never sent--waiting...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Curtain Call: | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

Doris Kearns Goodwin needs no prodding. Her generational saga pays generous tribute to the near silent partners in Irish-American history's most important , merger. She offers little that is new and no shocks. If anything, Goodwin, author of Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and the wife of former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, softens the impact of the familiar political and sexual scandals that litter the path from the old sod to the Oval Office. Her approach is to balance the requirements of scholarship (Goodwin was a professor of government at Harvard) with the demands of the literary marketplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Power and the Glamour THE FITZGERALDS AND THE KENNEDYS | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...college escort service that ensures students' late night safety has received more calls than usual since the alleged rape, said Eliza Kent, president of the college Feminist Alliance. The Feminist Alliance has held a silent vigil in which students walked around campus carrying candles, she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Rape Victim Won't Aid Police | 2/7/1987 | See Source »

...Northeastern celebration grew silent as Racine was comforted by his defensemen...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Final 'Pot Shot Dooms Crimson, 5-4 | 2/4/1987 | See Source »

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