Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...executed shortly for embezzling $255,000. He also had a convicted Viet Cong terrorist shot in a Saigon marketplace, ordered all four army corps commanders to do likewise. Stirring unhappy memories of highhanded Mme. Nhu, the government slapped an 11 p.m. curfew on the capital in order to mute the blatant contrast be tween Saigon's hedonistic existence and the grim, grey life of the Communist-ridden countryside...
...Constitution is utterly mute on the subject, but Douglas heard echoes in the Bill of Rights (the first eight amendments): "Specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras [fringe areas]," he said, "formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance." According to Douglas, "zones of privacy" emanate from the First Amendment's "penumbra" right of association, the Third Amendment's prohibition against the quartering of soldiers "in any house" without consent in peacetime, the fourth's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures," and the fifth's privilege against sel-incrimination...
...court ruled that state prosecutors can no longer comment to jurors on the failure of criminal defendants to take the stand. Eddie D. Griffin, who remained mute during his trial for a 1961 rape-murder in Los Angeles, had a previous rape-robbery record going back to 1944. Had he testified, the D.A. could have raked up every detail. Griffin was convicted nonetheless after the D.A. pointedly noted his silence, a practice permissible in six states, including California. In decisions dating to 1908, the Supreme Court had refused to bar such comment in state courts (federal courts have barred...
...West. Gandhi liked to call for spiritual tranquillity. "Virtue," he preached, "lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise." Spirituality has proved powerless to return rioting mobs to their prayers, while Western rationalism in Asia has been equally unable to mute the "din and noise" of communal clashes...
Italian is one language in which a deaf-mute is not completely lost. Every facial tic, every finger flick, means something. A thumb jabbed at the mouth: "Waiter, bring some wine." A semi-rotating hand with thumb and forefinger up: "No can do." One raised finger: "Probably." Palm open: "Probably not." Tapping the center of the forehead: "Do you think I'm stupid?" Extended fingers slowly rubbing the underchin: "I couldn't care less...