Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgetown University Hospital, Surgeon Charles Anthony Hufnagel has developed an ingenious solution: into the aortic channel he introduces an additional valve made of plastic, with a floating ball which stops the backflow when the heart relaxes. (Such valves used to tick like a clock inside the patient, are now silent because the ball is covered with silicone rubber.) The gadget does not prevent all backflow but stops enough to keep most patients' hearts from being overloaded...
Djakarta's press, disliking Sukarno's plan but hesitant to criticize him, kept silent until Hatta spoke out against Sukarno's proposal to set up a "guided democracy" with all parties represented. "Oil and water," Hatta snapped, "don't mix." Hatta had a sane and solid answer to Sukarno's oft-repeated plea that "we cannot ignore the 6,000,000 people who voted for the Communist Party." Said Hatta: "Leave them in the opposition.'' Encouraged by Hatta's stand. Djakarta newspapers took...
...over-burdened municipalities, so long as there is need for roads and education, there is no justification for the dividends." The antiadministration Calgary Herald indignantly advised its readers to "treat the bonus with contempt," and the Edmonton Journal denounced the plan as "a great hoax." Largely unheard from: the silent majority of ordinary citizens who will doubtless gratefully collect and happily spend the dividends...
...Patients handicapped by the loss of speech may express themselves through a book called Silent Spokesman, by Wayland W. Lessing, a Chicago welfare worker. By pointing at the book's pictures and diagrams a patient can flash, among other messages, what friends he wants to see, where he has pain, and such complicated thoughts as: "I want a 21-inch television set." Cost of the book...
...publicly supported college, fear of offending the sensibilities of the local community is apt to lessen student freedom of expression more than at a private institution. Legislative control of funds and tax exemptions exert considerable silent pressure on the complete exercise of academic freedom. At Brooklyn College, a New York City-supported school, this issue has blown up into a public controversy over alleged censorship of the campus literary magazine, Landscapes...