Word: utterings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...facility: crypto-equipment operator, disaster-preparation specialist and attack-warning adviser. Mount Weather also has a simulation and gaming branch, which postulates various disaster scenarios. In all, more than 240 men and women work at the site; some are second-generation employees, and most are unwilling to utter even a word about the facility, having been sworn to secrecy. Beyond preparing to cope with the effects of a nuclear attack, the facility conducts substantial research into radiological instrumentation and is a focal point for disaster information. Eight engineers, technicians and scientists assigned to Mount Weather's radiological instrumentation test facility...
...past 40 years or so, because of a lengthy series of Supreme Court rulings, the tide has generally favored the separationists. In this nation of spiritual paradoxes, it is legal to hang a picture in a public exhibit of a crucifix submerged in urine, or to utter virtually any conceivable blasphemy in a public place; it is not legal, the federal courts have ruled, to mention God reverently in a classroom, on a football field or at a commencement ceremony as part of a public prayer...
ONLY FOUR FRESHMEN HAVE SIGNED the book at Leavitt's to accompany their class eleven to New Haven. This is the most disheartening evidence of utter lack of class loyalty that any class has shown certainly within the recollection of the present generation of college men. Ninety-five has given plenty of evidence this fall that in most respects, it is the poorest class that has entered Harvard for some time. The class has done nothing creditable up to this time into which it has not been goaded by public opinion. In previous years, freshman classes have known the duties...
...taboo topic, and whatever vastly increased awareness the Hudson announcement had generated never translated into vastly increased understanding, despite vastly increased funding. Hudson himself never said a public word about the disease. And he wasn't the only one keeping mum. One actor friend of Hudson's refused to utter the word "AIDS" in public until 1987, seven years after the epidemic hit the United States. That person was named Ronald Reagan...
...speeches and the round-eyed, wondering queries of a small boy. But the most memorable player is the one who has least to do. As the kindest and most dutiful sister, Brid Brennan sits at her knitting, soon to be rendered useless by machines, with a soft look of utter absence in her eyes...