Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the effect of the U.S. banking reforms under discussion last week (see above), they are unlikely to mute the small businessman's eternal lament: that a bank will lend him the money he needs only if he can show that he already has it. Nonetheless, in recent years the small businessman's plight has been significantly eased by a fast-rising breed of financiers who are called factors and operate on the theory that a company's best assets are its customers' debts...
...Fifth Amendment "without doubt hinders the conviction of the guilty far more frequently than it protects the rights of the innocent," but he pleads that a suspect witness before a congressional committee often faces "conviction if he confesses guilt, perjury if he denies guilt, and contempt if he stands mute." Williams' advice to his clients is simple: bear with ridicule and take the Fifth...
...comprehensible language of innuendoes, winks and whispered asides.'' Sickened by man and unable to love God, Jacob returns secretly to the Gazda village to find Wanda. They make their way to a Jewish squatters' community, where Wanda escapes detection as a Gentile by pretending to be mute, and Jacob, the scholar, shortly becomes a community leader...
...death.* Since the second son in line, Don Jaime, was a deaf-mute and renounced the throne, the monarchic responsibility at last fell to Don Juan...
...Miracle Worker. On film as on Broadway, the story of the child Helen Keller's release from the condition of a blind deaf-mute becomes an almost unbearably moving performance...