Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remaining short stories, Lore Groszmann's "Mrs. Geiger's Night Out," works from a weak beginning into a strong portrait of a massively silent old woman. The other, Millie Starr's "Crazy Sunday," would be fine but for the fact that Salinger has done it all before and better...
...dutifully posed for pictures with Knowland, he has not gone so far as to verbally acknowledge Knowland as a running mate or to endorse his stand for a state right-to-work law. Most party candidates feel the same way. As undaunted as ever, Knowland counts on a silent vote from rebellious union members, hopes major California appearances by President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon this month will give him a big lift...
Last week, as Quemoy endured the fifth week of its ordeal and the Warsaw talks showed no progress, Chiang's attitude hardened. The last advocate of restraint among his advisers had fallen silent. Chiang reportedly urged his case in a series of lunches and meetings in Taipei with U.S. Ambassador Everett Drumwright, Admiral Harry Felt, commander in chief of U.S. Forces in the Pacific, and Vice Admiral Roland Smoot, U.S. commander in the Formosa area...
...your wholly admirable editorial on "White Inclemency" may I add a few words of clarification. Massachusetts law which bans discrimination in all public and publicly-assisted housing is not, as you suggest, entirely silent on the discriminatory practices of rooming house owners...
...infinity. As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross.... Before the end, one began to pray to it; inherited instinct taught the natural expression of man before silent and infinite force. Among the thousand symbols of ultimate energy, the dynamo was not so human as some, but it was the most expressive...