Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call to the attention of the student body a situation which within itself is a mute accusation of the collective integrity of the House residents. However, I consider it my duty to bring this ugly thing to the light so that the situation may be rectified and the silent accuser removed forever from our Houses...
...venom into a man's leg and turn his red blood a vivid, poisonous green. And I feel the cold shivers on my spine when I realize that I stepped within a foot of one of them, one that did not strike and did not rattle, but like a silent thing uncoiled at my very feet and crawled toward a hole in a clump of greasewood. I shot it three times and killed it. It had thirteen rattles on its stubby tail. I sweat now to think of that, how I started to brush between two clumps of bushes...
Discreetly silent was Duke's faculty...
Economic theories for the immediate salvation of the U. S. come & go like the waves of the sea, pounding loudly for a little while on the beach of public attention and then receding to the silent depths of history. The Utopian movement, whipped up into big breakers by the 1934 campaign, spent itself in the defeat of California's Upton Sinclair and his EPIC. Its successor, the Townsend Plan, touched its high watermark just before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey...
...members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) believe that God's "Inner Light" is in their souls. When they meet together they keep silent, knowing that the Spirit will move them to say what is necessary when it is necessary. (If no one is moved after an hour of quiet, the meeting is over.) Quakers have little ritual, no priesthood. Their societies are organized simply: in Monthly Meetings (one congregation), Quarterly Meetings (representatives from several Monthly Meetings), Yearly Meetings (representatives from several Quarterly Meetings), General Conferences (numerous Yearly Meetings). Last week two important Yearly Meetings gathered in Philadelphia, citadel...