Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the President has remained silent on vital issues," he cracked. "On the contrary, we have heard many a bold platitude. We are given phrases instead of leadership, slogans instead of a program." Then, after a few bold platitudes of his own, Kennedy flew off to political rituals in three more states (an encounter with Oregon's candidate-heckling "Cavemen," a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Boise, Idaho, a prop-stop in Butte, Mont.) on a routine three-day weekend of campaigning away from Washington. Said a top politician, as Kennedy departed: "He'll murder Nixon."* Behind the Front...
...matched opponents are the only two organizations in the nation that are European in structure, efficiency and administration: 1) the army, under Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, 40. 2) the Communist Party, under the leadership of Secretary-General Dipa Nusantara Aidit, 36. These days the Communists are taking a silent licking...
...more. A receiver of General Electric's at Schenectady, N.Y. heard the signal intermittently for about an hour longer. Then it faded out. Some 410,000 miles away in outer space, Pioneer IV, the U.S.'s first man-made planet, wheeled on around the sun, but now silent forever...
...polar orbit. But it had not been spotted visually, perhaps because its orbit carried it over the world's inhabited areas in bright daylight or darkness, when it is hard to see. The nine-station radio fence that spans the U.S. and is supposed to detect any silent satellite had reported no sign...
...shut door, one can see into the court-wigged heads, writing hands, the judge enthroned, red-robed, heraldic like a king of cards; the back of the doctor's head and neck solid above the parapet; counsel in shadow-play shooting out an arm; lips moving soundless, all silent, sharp, like fish inside a bowl...