Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would she? What seems to be modesty and courage in the present U.S. mood (or lack of mood) might also be a numbness in the body social. Being a sportswoman, Mrs. Clark did not mean to play down the zest and pride of achievement, or to mute the challenge of possible failure. Restraint of expression is different from lack of response and inability to express...
Inside Guatemala, tension rose to the boil. Labor and peasants presented with farms of their own under the land-reform program pledged loyalty to Arbenz and the Communists; the remote Indians, as ever, were mute and apart. But in the capital, which had elected an anti-Communist mayor in 1951, the government discovered "plot" after "plot"-and across the border in Honduras, Castillo Armas was almost ready...
...priceless historical and artistic record consisting of some 500 pictures, and a lively respect for his Indian friends. Wrote Catlin in his journal: "An Indian is a beggar in Washington City, and a white man is almost equally so in the Mandan village. An Indian in Washington is mute, is dumb and embarrassed; and so is a white man (and for the very same reasons) in this place...
...dispute with McCarthy: to safeguard servicemen's morale and the public's confidence in the Army. Last week Army Chief of Staff Matthew Ridgway made a conspicuous entrance to the floodlit hearing room in mid-session, and sat down right behind Witness Stevens. By this mute signal, the world learned that Stevens' fight had the professional Army behind...
Although America's recent pact with Spain involved only bases, the Spanish seem to believe it is a license for France's bold actions. And while the State department remains quick the British interpret the silence as mute agreement with France, who is eager to turn every diplomatic twist to his advantage...