Word: silents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guns went silent across the gulf, there were victory celebrations on the home front, but for TIME correspondents covering the war, few moments of exhilaration. The road to Kuwait City was a desolate highway lined by unlit Iraqi fire trenches, burning oil wells and refineries, power lines to nowhere. When it rained on Thursday, correspondent William Dowell looked down at his soaked shirt and saw that it was black with soot, sifted through skies darkened by smoke from burning oil fields...
...that the guns have fallen silent, the pounding of jackhammers will soon replace the din of war. At $200 billion or more over the next 10 years, the price of rebuilding ravaged Kuwait seems certain to dwarf the $50 billion or so that it took to liberate the oil-rich country. With that much money at stake, companies around the world began battles of their own long before the shooting war ended, fighting over contracts for everything from hospitals to refineries in one of history's largest reconstruction jobs. "This provides an almost unlimited backlog of good, profitable work," says...
...silent protest began at 2:30 p.m. outside Kirkland before winding its way through the square to the Radcliffle Quadrangle...
According to Chen, yesterday's protest was silent because the group sought to direct the issue toward the community as a whole, rather than toward any one particular group...
...thus the responsibility of the community as a whole not to remain silent, but rather to protest loudly and in unity: under no circumstances will we tolerate symbols of malice and oppression...