Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound carried across the water from the session of the "People's Court." It was like seeing a distant silent movie. From Macao, people watched in fascination until a squad of soldiers made the three prisoners rise, march across the parade ground. They were quickly lined up, then a volley of rifle fire cut them down. The commune members dispersed to their barracks...
Such segregationist groups as the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Councils concentrate unerringly on keeping the moderates silent and leaderless. Method No. 1 : In formers. One of the six men arrested in a Negro castration case turned out to be a Ku Klux Klan captain of intelligence - and a member of Alabama's interracial Council on Human Relations who had sat quietly through all council meetings. Method No. 2: Quick Mobilization. The Citizens' Councils have a chain-telephone-call system that can blanket the city in twelve hours. Method No. 3: Phone Threats. A Presbyterian minister...
...last Explorer has fallen silent, and the current series of U.S.-made satellites is spinning to its end. Last week Roy W. Johnson, director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), announced plans for the U.S.'s next series. The new "Discoverer" series will include Sputnik-sized reconnaissance satellites revolving in north-south orbits that cross both poles...
...have stood by, silent and tight-lipped for three days, while New Yorkers have done without their major newspapers. Every day we have held back, hoping the strike would end. We can stand by and watch no longer. The CRIMSON is bringing its newsprint to New York...
...were the Silent Generation. And I, whose first literary discovery was a book entitled Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, feel proud to be a member...