Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eagerness to make new weapons, he might have got his judgment on disarmament distorted. This was a fair way of giving Teller a chance to answer in public the charges that some scientists make in private that he has lost all sense of proportion. The crowded committee room was silent. Teller began to reply: "I chose the profession of a scientist," he said, "and I am in love with science; and I would not do willingly or eagerly anything else but pure science because it is beautiful and my interest is there. I don't like weapons. I would...
...went, until at last, in 1955, Minister of Finance Giulio Andreotti, a Christian Democratic Party stalwart, said yes. Minister Andreotti promptly defended his decision on legal grounds and pointed out that it applied only to diplomats appointed before the tax was imposed. Prince Pacelli and Count Pecci kept silent. But, crying "anticlericalists!" the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano opened a running debate with critics of the tax exemptions, declared that the implied slap at the Pope might be punishable under Italian...
Another problem is the high psychological accident rate. "Women work, men study, families are raised in shifts; too busy people get on each other's too taut nerves in too crowded quarters in too noisy halls. So there are crackups: some lurid ones, strictly for whispering; more strained, silent ones gritted through in the analysts' offices...
...photography is jerkily primitive. Furthermore, the English titles are generally crowded off the bottom of the screen--but this is not too important, since Clair had no confidence in the new-fangled concepts of the talkies, and communicates anything important with the time-tested techniques of the silent film...
This letter is written as a testimony of defense for Dr. George A. Buttrick, preacher to Harvard University for the past three and one half years. Since Dr. Buttrick chooses to remain silent in his own defense, it is the duty of those who admire and respect him to rally to his support at this time...