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Word: silents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voters for mimicking spoiled children with demands of "now-nowism -- our collective shortsightedness, our obsession with the here and now, our reluctance adequately to address the future . . . Many think of ((the deficit)) as a cause of our problems. But it is also a symptom, a kind of silent now-now scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Federal Government: The Can't Do Government | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...songs together with chipper- inane prattle as featureless as his musicianship. He's just a guy supporting his offscreen wife, kids and mortgage in a way he finds more congenial than, say, selling aluminum siding. Banality is a hair shirt for Jack. His life is all squalid improvisation and silent disgust at tinkling out "piano stylings." He knows better, and he might do better, as a jazzman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Finally, A True Character Comedy | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Before this week, baseball was chugging along at a rapid pace. Today, baseball is silent, along with the rest of the nation. For the first time since anyone could remember, no one cared about baseball...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: The Quake and the World Series: Baseball Takes Back Seat to Safety | 10/19/1989 | See Source »

Because of Stone's membership on the Pittston board and of Harvard's ownership of Pittston stock, Harvard is a silent accomplice to Pittston's efforts to break the United Mine Workers. As members of the University, it is our responsibility to express our disapproval with Harvard's complicity. We urge everyone to join the rally today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMWA, Yes! | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...Kong's traders, retailers and carvers -- about 3,000 people in all -- are already suffering from the U.S., European and Japanese bans. Kwong Fat Cheung Ivory once employed 100 carvers. Now there are five, all old men, who at night can be found sitting around a table eating a silent dinner of silvery fish, cabbage and egg. Behind them is a wall of ivory tusks in burlap sacks that were destined for Taiwan until that country declared a ban in August. "There is nothing to give them to do," says Eddie Huen, one of five brothers who run the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elephants: Trail of Shame | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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