Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frontier adjustments grieve us deeply." But he added triumphantly: "After ten years the flag of the fatherland will again fly over the town hall and the Church of San Guisto of Trieste." At that, the whole Senate rose to its feet, the center and right cheering, only the Communists silent. (They could not afford to oppose the universal Italian yearning to have Trieste, but neither could they stand up for Italy's claim without violating the Communist line that Trieste should remain a Free Territory with Russia having a voice in its future.) No legislative approval was required...
...drum is silent. Nothing seems very worth while any more. Remember when it used to compete with the Lowell House bells for sound and impracticality? Those were the days. Now its frame is rotting, the cowhide rips, and down at Soldiers Field, spectators no longer think thunder showers are coming...
...They sat about a huge, hollow, rectangular table covered with deep blue felt-Chairman Anthony Eden, lounging debonairly; John Foster Dulles, doodling; Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, looking more than ever like a plumper and younger Winston Churchill; Canada's L. B. Pearson; Konrad Adenauer, gaunt and silent; Gaetano Martino, at his first international appearance as Italy's Foreign Minister; Joseph Bech from Luxembourg; Johan W. Beyen of The Netherlands; dark-jowled Premier Pierre Mendès-France, reading a magazine. The pressing task before them was to fill the void left by the French rejection...
Died. Bert Lytell, 69, for 66 years an actor in the theater, radio, cinema and TV; after an operation; in Manhattan. A matinee idol of silent films (The Lone Wolf, Alias Jimmy Valentine), he moved smoothly from leading man to character roles on Broadway (Lady in the Dark), served as president of Actors' Equity for seven years...
After she sang in Copenhagen, enthusiastic Danes bought 20,000 records of her Silent Night. In the U.S., she reports, her recording of Move On Up a Little Higher topped the 1,000,000 mark...