Word: muted
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...such a high proportion of cowed and eunuchoid males, drilled with Prussian thoroughness to shun all household sins. Never, but never, do they drop cigar ashes in the icebox, prop their feet on a coffee table, leave an unwashed dish in the sink . . . They endure their married lives in mute docility, and die mercifully early in life from ulcers and high blood pressure...
...really too hot to fight; few blows landed with real conviction. Cops soon stopped the festivities with gentle words. Penalties: a $100 fine slapped on each manager by League President Warren Giles, who had seen the Donnybrook in mute rage. Final score (if it mattered): Redlegs 5, Cardinals...
...answer the question-why do I live? This provokes the answer: art is an attempt to justify human existence. Whether it's beautiful or ugly doesn't matter. Art still has to prove that human existence is worthwhile." Wotruba's stone men and women, in their mute but eloquent silence, seem to be stumbling toward the answer that...
...time for goodnights had come, Ljubinka reached into the pocket of her coat, pulled out a gun and fired on Cupic until the piece was empty. Momcilo Cupic died almost instantly. His forsaken love was carried, struggling and sobbing, to a mental ward, where she sat last week, mute...
Unspoken Word. In Cleveland, Deaf-Mute Mrs. Edna Hopton won a divorce from her deaf-mute husband after she convinced Common Pleas Judge B. D. Nicola that "nagging in the sign language can be just as effective as spoken words...