Word: silenceâ
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...their silence after serving short prison terms, and that this offer came from the White House. McCord's sources of information were Liddy and Hunt, making his own testimony hearsay and thus legally inconclusive in a criminal case. But the fact that McCord was talking broke the conspiracy of silence???and blew open the whole scandal...
Even so, New Yorkers assailed by chill night?and, for a frozen instant, silence???reacted almost sportively, as if it were all a gigantic game of blindman's buff. In soaring office buildings and fetid subway tunnels, beleaguered commuter trains and jampacked terminals, they joked and chattered, waiting from minute to minute for the reviving whine of dynamos, the first stutter of returning light. And, incredulously, they began to realize at last that they had been transported to Caliban's world, a vast, trackless cave without warmth or wheels, without hot food or the lights of home...
...preliminary choice among candidates for thb harem was passed on to him. Eventually his reputation became such that many of the higher nobles of the court habitually asked his advice when choosing an additional wife. Europeans, while deploring the tendency of "Mokri the Blind" to examine candidates in silence???thereby precluding any investigation of their intellectual powers?nevertheless have honored him as one of the least corrupt of high Moroccan officials. Late despatches reported that no Occidentals had contracted typhus...
...SILENCE???H. B. Warner and a neatly glued mystery play which has been entertaining many and causing none to think...
...SILENCE???The season's single mystery melodrama which has stood the test of ever increasing scepticism on the part of an increasingly blasé public...