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Word: silents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what would an attack on any or all of these targets actually do to combat terrorism? That is the essential question. If the Reagan Administration does hit Libya, the most it can count on is silent and grudging acquiescence from most of its allies and more vocal but still guarded approval from Congress--and that assumes the fighting is over quickly with no heavy loss of American lives. Heartier approval would follow only if the attack seemed likely to bring about a sizable decline in terrorist outrages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Targeting Gaddafi | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...fellow's feet next to me and did what he did." He quickly graduated to Broadway musicals, then in 1930 was brought to Hollywood as a contract player for Warner Bros., the studio that had ushered in the talkies a few years earlier with The Jazz Singer. Many silent-film stars' careers were destroyed by the triumph of sound; Cagney's was ensured by it. He was one of the first actors to grab an audience by sending dialogue special delivery, with a style of high-speed utterance that could animate even the most inert exchanges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Was All Big - and It Worked:James Cagney: 1899-1986 | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...champagne flowed and the checkbooks groaned at the annual silent auction benefitting the American Repertory Theatre (ART) last night...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Actor Christopher Reeve Auctions Off Valuable Oddities to Benefit the ART | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

...After a silent breakfast, the monks gather for rounds in the offices downstairs, when they go over the schedule of the day. By now, some of them are dressed in everyday clothes. They check the daily business, delegating cars to those who work beyond the abbey's walls...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: The Monks of Harvard Square | 4/10/1986 | See Source »

Both affection and sympathy shine through Kureishi's ironic treatment of Omar and Johnny. His portrait of the assimilated "Pakis," however, is another matter: priceless if only for its scathing directness, Nasser's house is divided between traditionally attired and silent females and the Westernized (read: loud) and self-satisfied males. Nasser himself remains an important hair's breadth away from merely detestable because he retains a sense of brotherly loyalty and an affectionate nature--although he does deal in very detestable and profitable muck. The real villain is Nasser's right-hand man, the fully macho Salim, who smuggles...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Good Clean Fun | 4/4/1986 | See Source »

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