Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority last week to the Pawtucket crèche case (see box). But advocates of school prayer are no longer willing to wait or to settle for private meditation. Says the Rev. Jerry Falwell, leader of the Moral Majority: "We didn't fight for the right to keep silent." At the outset of an election year, and with the assistance of a popular President who has fervently embraced the crusade on the campaign trail, prayer advocates are determined to mount a frontal assault in Congress for a constitutional amendment that would permit school prayer...
...Beirut International Airport had clambered aboard American vessels off shore, the frigate W.S. Sims lobbed a barrage of 20 naval shells onto Lebanese territory. The fire apparently was ordered to protect a small contingent of U.S. gunnery spotters working alongside Gemayel's Lebanese Army. Then the guns fell silent...
DIED. Ditra Flame, 78, onetime violinist and missionary who was known as the Lady in Black for her mournful visitations to the tomb of Silent Screen Star Rudolph Valentino; in Ontario, Calif. Flame (pronounced Flah-may) never tired of recounting that when she was deathly ill at age 14, she was visited by Family Friend Valentino, who assured her she would survive and asked her to visit his grave if he should die, saying, "I fear loneliness more than anything in the world." After Valentino's fatal appendicitis at age 31 in 1926, Flame brought 13 roses...
During an earlier silent auction guests bid on such items as a German translation of The Hotel New Hampshire, autographed by author John living, and a deep-sea fishing trip off the coast of Martha's Vineyard...
...Realistically, I know it's a long shot, but we have to hope. That's all you can do once you lose control of your own destiny," Plutnicki said a little later, with his voice growing weaker and the silent gaps between his words growing longer...