Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magnitude of world confusion could only be realized when the thousands of press dispatches, the millions of radio murmurings, and all the display of mute, invisible facts and forces were gathered into bald proximity. The persistent, patient rapping of Japan at the doors of French Indo-China (see p. 33) became really loud only when set near the ticking of the Balkans' time bomb (see p. 34); Almazán and Avila Camacho staring at each other angrily in Mexico (see p. 39), Smuts and Herzog doing the same in South Africa-these minor cockfights became significant potentials when...
...know not what. The fawn, the antelopes, and the river-hogs swayed on their cloven, pointed hooves as they tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity. The panther lay huddled in a corner of her cage, with staring fur and a look of mystery in her eyes. . . . Can the sufferings of animals reveal...
...Westport, Conn, home, normally cheerful Helen Adams Keller, famed blind deaf-mute, observed her 60th birthday as "a day of mourning." Through her secretary she explained: "The world is in such a state I cannot be gay by any manner of means...
...deep-southern mill town a half-mad anarchist, a Negro doctor desperate to free his race, a girl who loves music, and a quiet, watchful cafe owner all come to share a mystical admiration for deaf-mute John Singer. Out of Singer's stunned face and his silence, each of the four constructs an image of absolute understanding, a godlike sounding board for prayerlike confessions. The fact that Singer himself is coolly puzzled by them, is himself even more piteously dependent than they, escapes them. The fact that no one of them can understand the other they scarcely realize...
Last week, as Hitler struck into The Netherlands and Belgium, Isolationists fell almost mute. And in the momentary silence U. S. public opinion began to find tongue...