Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said a Soviet reporter, "as if not just two men but two great brotherly people had embraced." But Chou himself was forced to render tribute to Khrushchev for his "correct leadership" as a party theorist. About one new idea from the busy brain of Nikita Khrushchev Chou was significantly silent. In tossing out ideas for all kinds of Soviet-style disarmament plans, Khrushchev proposed an atom-free neutral zone in the Pacific, vaguely defined but seeming to include Red China, Japan, and the U.S. testing areas in the Marshalls. One obvious interpretation: Khrushchev too is not anxious to have...
Papal Message. In his capital city of Teheran, where his own life is not squalid, the Shah was silent on his Peacock Throne. But Iranian court circles pointed out that the staunchly Roman Catholic house of Savoy was used to religious difficulties. Maria Pia, Ella's sister, married Alexander of Yugoslavia, who belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church. Her Aunt Giovanna married Orthodox King Boris of Bulgaria, and the pledge to raise their children as Roman Catholics was given but not fulfilled. Yet Pope Pius XI sent Queen Giovanna a message carrying his blessings and esteem -and the message...
...silent Reporter Murrow, Manhattan wags were offering him this wry consolation: "Confucius say, 'Man who walks through whorehouse is sure to be misunderstood...
Most of the nation was at lunch, but in their restaurants and homes Belgians fell silent as the youthful voice, how and then shaking slightly with emotion, came over the radio. Later, 4,200 miles away in Léopoldville, blacks and whites heard the same words blaring over the loudspeakers of sound trucks. Lean, spectacled King Baudouin had taken it upon himself to explain in person his government's long-awaited program to give independence to the Congo, that vast land 80 times the size of Belgium, that was once his great granduncle's personal fief. Only...
...wide and 10 ft. deep. At nearby Boniato prison, six priests heard last confessions. Before dawn buses rolled out to the range and the condemned men dismounted, their hands tied, their faces drawn. Some pleaded that they had been rebel sympathizers all along; some wept; most stood silent. One broke for the woods, was caught and dragged back. Half got blindfolds...