Word: silents
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Candidates need to speak up. If they're reluctant, then they ought to be asked. Vice President Al Gore '69 has been strangely silent on this topic. Not that he bears the sole blame; he has had only one challenger and that challenger is losing ground fast. Gore has no desire to expend valuable political energy on this issue. After all, the environment is a hot-button topic that polarizes party radicals on both sides of the fence...
Before the first Monti steal, Harvard had scored one basket in the last 11:11. But then she swatted the ball away from Albany freshman Jess McGinlay, and drove in for the easy layup. The basket energized a crowd that had fallen dead silent up until then...
Personally, sitting in the stands that afternoon I worried that my football hero would not be able to answer the bell. Amidst the uncertainty, with the class and dignity that has marked his career, Marino stayed silent and took the field and let his play speak for itself...
...Marines and a Navy man fell to their death in a helicopter exercise off the coast of San Diego. Our insistently enlightened minds leap to "solve" such things, but their effect on our spirits has more to do with our helplessness. Helplessness brings us close to one another in silent acts of mourning, to weep for the life we share--with you as well...
Nothing but the sound of waves foaming against black volcanic rock. A man sits alone at a desk reading verses of the Bible aloud to himself. Three white crosses stand desolate atop a bare green hill. All across the empty, silent island--a kind of Polynesian Scotland--moai, or worn, hollow-eyed statues carved from volcanic stone, are staring back at the new day as if it were...