Word: muted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grew concerned and returned him to the hospital. This time doctors decided to operate and removed a large blood clot pressing on Kelly's brain. Had surgery been performed earlier, Kelly might well have made a good recovery. But the delay resulted in permanent brain damage, leaving him mute and paralyzed from the neck down. The boy's family sued the hospital, the pediatrician and the school district for negligence, and was awarded $4,025,000 in damages, one of the largest malpractice settlements on record...
...town of Urbino to visit the site of the worst art theft since World War II. Between midnight and 2 in the morning of Feb. 6, three paintings had been taken from Urbino's 15th century Ducal Palace. One was a portrait of an unknown noblewoman, nicknamed The Mute, by Raphael. The other two were by Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation and the Madonna of Senigallia...
...Angstrom, and it is not really a picture of the Reverend Thomas Marshfield, the hero of this new book. But Marshfield has more of John Updike in him--the Updike who doesn't long for an animal existence and doesn't mind living in New York City--than the mute heroes of half a dozen of his previous novels...
...Mute, because Updike told their stories from a distance, not trusting in first person narrators. Lately Updike has tried to say things that cannot be said in a neutral, realistic narration, things that sound intrusive from an impersonal narrator...
...Thatcher's offer to Heath of a shadow cabinet post was taken as further evidence of her willingness to mute party conflicts. Calling at his Wilton Street house-still under repair after a pre-Christmas I.R.A. bomb blast-she renewed her invitation to have him join her as shadow Foreign Secretary. As she knew in advance that he would, he declined, stating a preference for a less conspicuous backbench perch-perhaps in the hope that if things go badly for Mrs. Thatcher he will be recalled to party leadership...