Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chances? American public opinion is now much healthier than it was twenty-five years ago. In spite of the crystallized sentiment against the Nazis, it is intent upon viewing all events through polarized glasses. It listens to newscasts with a silent admonition to discriminate in its belief. It reads of atrocities with a conscious effort not to get excited. It maintains a forced detachment from the affair...
...these reports added up to little more than propaganda. There was no authentic evidence of revolt in Germany last week, or even of the desire to revolt. Life had merely become harder. In Berlin, where last fortnight crowds appeared stunned and silent, the crowds had disappeared. The people were too busy to stand in crowds. Women were beginning to run trams and busses as men went to the front (during a blackout two streetcars crashed headon, injuring ten passengers). Women sold newspapers and delivered mail. The Nazi uniform all but disappeared from the streets and field grey took its place...
...driving to smash the Polish defensive triangle of Lwow-Lublin-Cracow before winter weather aided the Poles. While the bombers were loading, the Chancelleries were preparing their papers to place the guilt of launching the war (see p. 20). Then, the spokesmen stepped from the stage of history; the silent generals took their place...
...around him, from whom he derives his power, wish he would puff up, bark and curse in public; wanting that, they have built him up as Poland's Strong, Silent General...
...made none the less tense because everything had been so quiet, the Queen Mary docked in Manhattan day after Great Britain declared war. Part of the way she had been convoyed by British men-of-war. All the way her ports and windows had remained blackened, her outgoing radio silent. Aboard were $44,000,000 in gold, Banker John Pierpont Morgan, Steelman Myron C. Taylor, Cineman Harry M. Warner, Author Erich Maria Remarque and 2,327 other passengers. Some of them had slept on the floor, some on cots in the public rooms. Mr. Morgan, who usually takes a suite...