Word: silents
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...Kilson for allegedly attempting to kiss a freshman woman during his office hours.Over the next four years, the Kilson case would open a pandora’s box. Two other incidents involving faculty members and students made headlines on a campus that had, up until that point, been largely silent on the issue.“I know that the University’s policy in a way hadn’t really paid attention to that issue,” said University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, who was the associate dean for Undergraduate Education...
Though demurely silent among the spring evening voices of other icons, the verve of Rachel Carson comes to life as the conversation shifts to a planet in crisis. As the inspiration for grassroots environmentalism, Carson’s zeal penetrates the celebratory ambiance surrounding Shirley and Edgar. By questioning the status quo she inadvertently laid the groundwork for what was to become the Environmental Protection Agency. She might tell all at the table to speak without fear, stand one’s ground and be grand in vision. Carson’s choice from the menu: activism...
...Some of my technology shortcomings arise no doubt due to the date of my birth. When I went to college I was outfitted with a state-of-the-art Smith Corona Silent Super typewriter. It was light green and came in a hard tan carrying case. I would never have thought to call it a manual typewriter because, of course, all typewriters were manual, right? Thus when I took a typing test for my first job and was confronted with a typewriter where all of the keys were stuck, it took a stunned HR person to introduce...
...takes a powerful magic to keep Brits quiet on a Saturday night - just ask the nation's beleaguered police. Yesterday evening, pubs and clubs fell silent as 20 million people tuned in to a TV show to see a question of global significance finally resolved. The final of Britain's Got Talent wasn't just about whether Susan Boyle - Scotland's least processed export since steel-cut porridge oats - would triumph. Nor were viewers drawn simply by the lure of car-crash television amid frenzied media speculation that Boyle or some other vulnerable contestant might crack on camera...
...could not do a year ago. It finished the game, thanks to an excellent defensive effort that preserved a one-point lead against what was easily the best team in the league for the final 1:46 of the game, sending the boisterous Cornell fans home empty-handed and silent...