Word: noiseless
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...every three or four years, hard times come to the barren lands. For some reason (possibly sunspots), the Arctic vegetation is not so nutritious as usual this year; the lichens and mosses on which the lemmings feed apparently lack vitamins. Naturalists call such a time a "crash year." On noiseless, downy wings the great owls drift across the U.S. boundary looking for U.S. mice. Sometimes they get as far as southern Illinois or even the Carolinas...
...each other socially. They are divided roughly in their thinking between the Clifford philosophy of frontal attack and the Steelman philosophy that the better and safer attack is an oblique one. But the difference is principally in method, not in ideology. It is not enough to interrupt the almost noiseless ticking of the Little Cabinet's well-oiled clockwork...
...promenade deck added up close to a quarter of a mile. To carry the passengers effortlessly from one to another of the twelve decks, which rise within the Queen's 50,000-ton metal hull and spill above it like the hanging gardens of Babylon, were 21 noiseless elevators. The murals of the public rooms, boarded up during the war, were unveiled again. Both public and staterooms were paneled in woods from every continent-from beech to rich mahogany, rare and exotic betula and petula, zebrano and avodire...
...first man to report seeing them was Kenneth Arnold, of Boise, Idaho. Arnold, a businessman, was flying near Washington's Mt. Rainier when nine saucerlike objects, noiseless and sunbright, came streaking over the Cascades at "1,200 miles an hour in formation, like the tail of a kite." Arnold said later: "I don't believe...
...gingerly as they lit up again, Britons relaxed from their V-2 strain. The stratosphere siege had lasted seven months, and the noiseless rockets had worn Londoners' nerves thin. The V-2s started dropping the day after Prime Minister Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Minister of Works Duncan Sandys, announced that V-1 was licked. Before they stopped coming on March 27, 1,050 rockets had killed 2,754 people, seriously injured 6,523, damaged an untold number of buildings (including a million-dollar cinema at Marble Arch). Last week Churchill was asked in Parliament...