Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Resentment of small-town bankers is boiling. Some say that they now get the silent treatment on the street, and a few have been assaulted by angry customers. Nebraska farmers have taken to wearing black armbands to protest foreclosures. Bankers have also become the target of a bitter joke making the rounds in the Midwest: "Question: What's the difference between a dead skunk on the road and a dead loan officer? Answer: There are skid marks by the skunk." That kind of talk deeply offends the bankers, who in many cases grew up with and went to school with...
...right room?" Beck asked his silent 200 students when no one would define feudalism. Quickly he followed with another query, "What is unemployment?" One timid student replied, "Not having a job," and was backed up by others in the room. "Oh great, we've got a group of backup singers over here," Beck quipped...
...changes next year. Dclancy Smith hopes only that Keffer, a silent leader, becomes a vocal player. "I would like her to he about 400 times moral verbal, and I am not exaggerating," Dclancy Smith says...
...sneak NROTC students down the river and give them credit, appalling that more students hoping to come here might be tempted to accept servitude in the armed forces. It is appalling most of all that the Faculty, which had the opportunity to voice its approval or disapproval, remained silent as stones in this matter of vital importance...
Portions of The Silent Scream aired on network news shows last week. "Never have so many millions of Americans seen such a graphic representation of a baby being ripped apart," said Congressman Robert Dornan, an antiabortion Republican from California. "The other side is now on the defensive." Admitted Nanette Falkenberg of the National Abortion Rights Action League: "I think we're in for some hard times...