Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here the stigmata, the brand, the taint, are clearly seen: the error of wearing white bucks for so solemn and evening, the misdemeanor of a soft, stammering voice, the felony of too loud and sure a one, the atrocity of a blue suit, here sitting a couple of silent boys with slanted eyes and yellow skin, from here the man who was academically first in the class leaving in discouragement to join Prospect, and here, recurring nearly two times out of every three, Israel's immemorial face is seen; the class has sixteen Merit Scholars, ten were in trouble...
...satellite itself, with its delicate instrumentation, might well have held the whole project up for months or years-had not Wernher von Braun, during most of the period that he was barred from engaging in satellite work, been in what he calls "silent coordination" with Caltech's William Pickering and the University of Iowa's James Van Allen in planning Explorer and its instruments...
...they circle the earth, crossing each other's orbits every 50 minutes or so, the U.S. satellite Explorer and the Soviet Sputnik II stay true to their national characters. Sputnik II is silent now, but even before its radio went dead its instruments talked in a secret code, and last week the Russians were still taciturn about its coded reports on conditions in space.* But the Explorer, a talkative American working in a published code, was droning away in the clear to all who would listen...
...lined, grave-faced old Italians come to roll bocce balls for 30? a game in the indoor courts behind the bar, or to drink a poncino (coffee laced with brandy) and play long, silent games of pinochle. But now and then the pinochle stops in mid-meld, and the bocce bowlers push through the swinging door into the bar to stand watching the small stage. Occasionally, as a mark of highest respect, the old men take off their hats...
...Alleghany got the good news, directors voted in Allan P. Kirby, 65, Alleghany president and silent financial backer of Young for the last 20 years to succeed Young as Alleghany chairman. Five-and-Ten-Store Heir Kirby, largest single stockholder in both Alleghany (516,500 common shares) and Central (300,100 shares), will continue as president, also become chairman of the executive committee...