Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their jury-room debate was not unpleasant because: 1) it gave them an opportunity to talk after eight silent days during which they had to ask their questions in writing; 2) they were allowed to smoke on the Senate floor, a privilege they enjoy at no other time. For two days Judge Ritter and his lawyers fretted nervously in an anteroom...
...storms which harried the South earlier in the week. He met the real disaster late at night when his train halted for half an hour at Gainesville where a tornado had devasted the main square of the town. There he appeared on the back platform around which 2,000 silent townspeople were grouped. "My friends," declared President Roosevelt, "I hope to come back some day at a less tragic time. . . . I shall always be very proud of the spirit you have shown...
Baba. The U. S. four years ago was fascinated by the arrival of a long-haired, silky-mustached Parsee named Shri Sadgaru Meher Baba (TIME, May 2, 1932). Called the "God Man," the "Messiah," the "Perfect Master," Meher Baba never speaks. The God Man claims to have been strictly silent since 1925, carries a little alphabet board on which he deftly spells his mute revelations (see cut, p. 37), among which is the declaration that he is in an "infinite state." He became that way, he says, after kissing an ancient holy woman named Hazrat Babajan, remaining in a coma...
...come to some pagan ritual consecrated to Mammon, each took out a handful of pennies. scattered them before him on the table, scooped them in, made a cryptic notation, and sent them rolling and bouncing once again. Time and again the outlandish ceremony was repeated and the once silent hall echoed with the sounds of tiny thinking cymbals...
...fair but unswerving enforcement of law through the orderly processes of the courts. The other is that the office of Governor is one of dignity and honor. When a Governor makes a mockery of our courts and juries and drags his high office into the mire, I cannot remain silent...