Word: mutedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their hands to their mouths to signify their proper respect for "Big Magic." A spindly-legged youth, thought to be a hopeless deaf-mute, had suddenly started prophesying that "God would arrive in Kirawara at one o'clock." Attracted by the commotion, a British-led patrol of Kenya's African police came crashing through the jungle, intent on arresting the prophet as a mouthpiece of the Mau Mau, the terrorist secret society that...
...Black Castle (Universal-International) is a forbidding edifice in the Black Forest to which, according to one of its inhabitants, "nothing but evil ever came." This moldering manse is presided over by one-eyed Count von Bruno (Stephen McNally), with a mute Lon Chancy as his doorman and Boris Karloff acting as his house physician. When dashing Sir Richard Burton (Richard Greene) arrives at the black castle, he is i) attacked by a black leopard during a hunting party, 2) almost immersed in an alligator pit, 3) thrown into a subterranean torture chamber, 4) prepared for burial alive. The Black...
...Word. In Chicago, after ex-G.I. James C. Mazza had received disability payments for seven years for a service injury which made him mute, he broke his silence to tell Veterans Administration officials that he was improving, was forthwith turned over to the Justice Department...
Down the runway they sped, Felix and the Constellation. The blast from the right inboard engine whipped his tattered shirt, but Felix only curled his bare toes tighter around the housing. Spectators at the terminal building spotted the figure behind the strut, and gestured in mute horror as the plane sped by. Joseph Hernandez, the flight steward, caught the meaning of their signals just in time to see the big double wheel leave the ground, with Felix still clinging tight, and fold forward into the wing...
...mute prisoners of history. That is a doctrine for totalitarians, it is no creed for free...