Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impugning the military, the mainstay of Marcos' power for more than a decade, the memorandum deals a powerful blow to a regime that is already embattled. Indeed, the shot that killed Aquino badly wounded the Marcos government. Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos, silent during twelve years of martial law, began taking to the streets last year to call for an end to the President's autocratic rule. Around the country, meanwhile, the 10,000 guerrillas of the Communist New People's Army have continued to gain momentum in their 16-year struggle against the central government. That...
...impulse, Williams decided to upgrade Bevacqua to the sixth slot for Game 2, and his three hits included a three-run homer, just his second of the year. "I'll do anything to get in the papers," he had proved before, but never so conventionally. (Larry Herndon, the silent Tiger who had an equally telling homer the day before, does anything to stay out of them.) After blowing kisses around the bases, Bevacqua reflected, "I've had a lot of valleys in my career; I've probably reached the top of the mountain tonight." Or at least...
...much more difficult to acknowledge that the ties between Harvard and South Africa are those of class, that the same corporate investors remaining inactive on issues of oppression in South Africa remain silent on issues of worker oppression at home. Ford Motor Company has factories in Detroit as well as South Africa...
...Oxford University, Fraser studied history, which taught her "form and structure." Even with her experience in publishing and research, Fraser still found problems in using sources for her latest book. "My ideal source would be a diary of an illiterate woman. You always have to try and find those silent voices. You can't go by the criminal records, where the poor do appear...
...Mystery of Irma Vep is a lush and loving parody of every gaslight romance from Jane Eyre to Rebecca, with glancing references to Shakespeare and Poe, to Louis Feuillade's silent-movie serials and Universal horror shows of the'30s-not to forget a side trip to the pyramids, where Lord Edgar reveals himself as an Egyptologist with a mummy fixation...