Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around many a key city in the eastern U.S. last week, cement-mixers, supplying the foundation of the nation's biggest construction boom, lay silent on their jobs. The sudden silence came after strikes were called by 17,000 United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers (total membership: 41,000) in 70 of the country's 160 cement plants. With kilns cooling and stockpiles quickly dwindling, contractors laid off about 20,000 construction men in New York, paralyzing work on $400 million in highways, schools, hospitals, airport facilities, piers. In Pennsylvania, expressway construction stopped on a six-mile stretch...
...wonderfully sheepish face for the role of the chief thief, and is hilarious in his series of outrageous disguises. The roles of his proteges, the ardent Hector and the morose Gustave, are well entrusted to Lawrence Spector and John Reese. Guy Sorel makes the most of his mainly silent role as the hen-pecked Lord Edgard. David Bauer is properly reserved as the older Dupont-Dufort; and the endomorphic slob the latter sired is highly amusing in the hands of Tom Bosley...
Attending the opening of a scientific display in Amsterdam, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands stopped before a complicated calculating machine. The operator informed her that the gadget could follow instructions, but could not think. Thinking hard herself, Her Majesty was silent, then delivered the considered royal opinion: "Fortunate...
...Silent Service. In Muncie, Ind., Leslie Anderson, 37, was fined $14 and costs after he walked up to his estranged wife on their wedding anniversary and, without a word, gave her a black...
...other networks, which, like CBS, constantly demand equal treatment with newspapers and magazines, stayed as silent as CBS. John Daly, ABC's vice president for news, said that he found nothing unsuitable in the White House reaction. Such a demonstration of eggshell caution under fire suggested that TV may be getting no worse than it deserves...