Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world looked on with mingled relief and apprehension. The Russians were strangely silent. Dotty old Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov, 77, said De Gaulle's return would "do more harm than good," but Radio Moscow quickly repudiated the remark. Moscow was torn by the desire to let French Communists, rioting in the streets, appear defenders of the Fourth Republic against the "Fascist right,'' while hoping that De Gaulle's proud and mystic nationalism might jeopardize the harmony of the NATO alliance. Washington, too, was tactfully discreet, hoping that De Gaulle could restore his sick nation to health...
Washington and London officially denied that any of their submarines were missing or overdue. Moscow was silent, though the Soviet embassy in Buenos Aires said it knew of no Russian submarines in the area. Rear Admiral Isaac Rojas, who was Vice President under Provisional President Pedro Aramburu, believes that the submarine was surveying the lonely Patagonian coast, where there are several bays that could be used to shelter big fleets in the event...
When motion pictures began to speak, more than one star of the silent screen, e.g., Corinne Griffith, John Gilbert, turned out to have a boondocks twang or a reedy pitch, and was never heard from again. But to Ronald Colman, whose English accent and pleasingly low register were envied from Metro to Paramount, the coming of sound meant second wind for one of the cinema's longest and most unvaryingly successful careers...
Only the junta, U.S. embassy officials and long lines of silent troops waited to see the Nixons off at the airport. At 5:09 p.m. the DC-6B flicked off the runway and turned north for Puerto Rico and U.S. soil. In Caracas the night before, Venezuela's Provisional President Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, gloomily twirling a yellow pencil, had expressed his fervent regrets. "It is very sad," he murmured. "I shall never forget this thing all my life...
...Boston reminded him of Leningrad, is vice-editor of Komsomolskaya Pravada, a daily youth newspaper with a circulation of 2.6 million. He answered most of the questions for the group. Vitaly Botko and Vladlen Troshkin, the only two who are not members of the Communist Party, were generally silent...