Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundreds of stalled elevators, office workers hung tremulously between earth and sky. Traffic lights failed; main arteries snarled. Hundreds of drivers ran out of gas?only to discover that service-station pumps cannot work without electricity. Apartment buzzers summoned nobody. Most vending machines became inoperable. Fire alarms were mute. At the United Nations, earphones and tape recorders went dead, leaving bewildered delegates ?for the first time in memory?with the refreshing experience of having nothing to say and no one to listen...
...only in rural areas, which are normally favorable to his Christian Democrats anyway, but also in cities partial to Opposition Leader Willy Brandt's Social Democrats. The response seemed to augur well for the campaign strategy Erhard's advisers have urged upon him, which is to mute his attacks on the Social Democrats, steer clear of elaborate matters of foreign policy, and present himself as an apolitical Onkel. It is a role Erhard is well suited for, being apolitical by nature, bashful about handshakes, and gifted with a meandering professorial style useful mainly for drowning out hecklers...
...relate to women, and on the road to suicide because of sibling rivalry with a twin brother. The town's most dynamic executive, David Schuster, was feeling trapped at the office and in a sick second marriage that was turning his lovely, congenitally deaf daughter into a willful mute. And even the last nice teen-age girl in town, Allison MacKenzie (Mia Farrow), was at 18 facing Life: Schuster, she learned, was interested in her for more than her baby-sitting services. "Basically Moral." But Monash sees "nothing offensive" in such plotting. "Why don't our critics...
MIDDLETOWN, VA., Wayside Theater: The Miracle Worker. William Gibson's dramatization of the struggle of Annie Sullivan to unlock the mind of the deaf-mute and blind child Helen Keller has become an enduring parable of perseverance and courage...
...Schiff and Powers argued it out in the composing room. At length, she turned to the crowd of printers. "Are you with him or with me?" she cried. The printers stood mute. With tears in her eyes, Publisher Schiff turned away, and minutes later ordered the Post shut down until further notice. That night, she declared that unless the union backed down, she would either sell the paper "or fold it forever if nobody wants...