Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy had all the chaos necessary to all-out anarchy. It did not have anarchy-yet, but Italians would not stay mute and muddled forever. At some point they would have to make up their minds in which direction they wanted to go. And the way they went would affect all Europe...
...management for the results that they have produced ... to the citizens of Canada for the way they have responded to war loans, Red Cross drives and the many other demands made upon their loyalties and emotions. . . . [Many] have given vast sums of money to back up in a mute way . . . the war effort. ... I am glad that as a soldier I can come home and find my fellow citizens doing a first-class job on their front. It will be something to tell my comrades overseas...
...Some of his troops in Italy already have run into painful decisions on when a shrine ceases to be a shrine and becomes an enemy artillery observation post (see p. 56). When the Allies approach Rome the eyes of the Christian world inevitably will be upon them, asking the mute question whether the city and its priceless antiquities must be left in rubble...
...British captain in Cairo ripped open a cablegram from England, goggled in mute horror at the message: "Son born." Frantic inquiries at the cable office disclosed that Form Message 185 had been substituted for No. 85 ("Receiving letters occasionally"). The error made a difference to the captain: he had not seen his wife in two years...
...confession, deaf-mute penitents are given a printed list of common sins, mark those they wish to confess, hand the paper to the priest. He writes the penance and instructions on the paper, then returns it. Others who wish to see him outside the confessional go to the rectory parlor and "whisper" their problems. A mute "whispers" by shielding his hand inside his partly opened coat as he signs. A woman makes signs behind her purse...