Word: hush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite Britain's reluctance, the dream of union has survived. And last week Britain finally succumbed to its lure. In a House of Commons so packed that even the chamber gangways were stuffed with squatting M.P.s, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan waited for a tense, expectant hush. Then he announced that Great Britain had finally decided to apply to join the Common Market, the three-year-old and amazingly successful economic union of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands...
...when Mike Nichols and Elaine May did their spiel for a Jax beer cartoon, involving a surrealistic flirtation between a female waitress and a male kangaroo ("How do I know you're not a kangaroo dressed up in a girl suit?"), voices in the audience had a cathedral hush: "This is real entertainment...
...followed its flight. On television sets from Canaveral to California they watched while its widening vapor trail was twisted into antic patterns by winds aloft. They listened while the calm, businesslike voice of the astronaut reported by radio as he progressed along his predetermined path. Schoolrooms knew an unaccustomed hush as students concentrated on Shepard's dangerous trip. Traffic thinned in thousands of cities as drivers pulled to the curb and tuned their radios. In Indianapolis, a judge halted courtroom proceedings so that all hands could watch a TV set that had been picked up by police as part...
...crowd in the House galleries filled every seat, overflowed into the aisles. Over both the galleries and the floor of the House brooded a hush of expectancy, as if some history-making drama were about to unfold...
...writer Ni Shi-tan, had been summarily sentenced to seven years in prison for "sedition" for criticizing the Nationalist government. His case got almost no attention either inside or outside Formosa. But last week the case of Publisher Lei Chen (TIME, Sept. 19) was proving about as easy to hush up as a typhoon...