Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that they hated the Army. At trial's end the three-man court deliberated six hours, found the ten defendants guilty, fined them $25 each, restricted them to post for 25 days, demoted each one grade in rank. The Chemical Center's 400 ESPPs were incensed but silent; Old Armymen were openly delighted. Said one: "Maybe now these boys will get over the idea that this is a college campus...
Died. Marshall Neilan, 65, live-it-up Hollywood director of the silent era (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hell's Angels); of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. One of the most lavish spenders in filmland history, "Mickey"' Neilan regularly exhausted a drawing account of $10,000 a week...
Royal Ancestry. But "Fritz" was not out yet. As Heuss and the Queen rode at a horse's pace in an open coach from the station to Buckingham Palace, the crowds stood silent except for an occasional shout, mostly in German. There was none of the hostility shown Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, but Londoners were at best curious, and at worst cold...
...Silent-sentry radar set, resembling old-style box camera on a tripod, picks up movement within 800 yds. under any conditions...
Bicycles are both silent and deadly, a menace to pedestrians and a terror to drivers, yet they have proven to be one of the most efficient ways for getting around Harvard Square. And the motor scooter, once an object for the adventurous rich, has become quite democratic and, one might say, even common. But both of these vehicles have been snubbed in University policy, or perhaps merely buried beneath the more weighty matter of parking...