Word: muted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plot are thoroughly absorbing. When all the endless viciousness becomes tiresome, this is in fact the only quality which holds the play together. Deeper elements are hinted: all sorts of unnamed fears, complicated hatreds, distortions of familial roles... but for all the overt turbulence, the inner voices remain mute...
...White House hopes that the fact that the brief was originally drafted by two blacks-Solicitor General Wade McCree and Assistant Attorney General Drew Days III-might help to mute some of the expected criticism...
...Germany to pump up its economy and to refrain from selling full-cycle nuclear plants abroad. Schmidt had also expressed fears that Carter's unsubtle, missionary foreign policy style and his human rights campaign were hurting detente and East-West relations. But Chancellor and President took pains to mute their differences, and both sides considered the meeting "an atmospheric success." Schmidt-whom Carter had called "Helmut" all along-finally unbent enough to address the President as "Jimmy." At one remarkable moment, Schmidt, an amateur organist, grabbed the baton from the conductor of the Marine Corps band...
With deadlines at hand and the normally clattering wire service tickers standing mute, editors all over the world had visions of gaping holes in their newspapers. In Houston, Post Night Editor Ernie Williams fretted: "I had only three paragraphs on the downing of the helicopter in Korea, and five graphs on the blackout. But how was I going to put giant heads on stories like that?" Fortunately for Williams, the A.P. wire started moving just at deadline, and he was able to flesh out his two top stories. For Cincinnati Post Sports Editor Tom Tuley, the biggest problem...
...longer symbolizes California. As just about everybody knows by now Reagan's successor, Jerry Brown, refuses to inspect, much less inhabit the abode, conspicuously preferring to bunk downtown in a modest $275-a-month apartment. Today this monument to the California dream stands cold and mute, an incongruous reminder of an era that no longer exists...