Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombers streaked into view in tight formation, peeled off and landed a minute apart, their huge brake parachutes billowing from their tails. Throttled down, the planes sedately taxied two miles to the base-operations building, their high-pitched, throbbing scream searing the air. Then, abruptly, the planes were silent, immobile in a neat line, each engine coughing up a puddle of unused fuel. With equal abruptness, 600 onlookers broke into a wild cheer. The three swept-wing planes, carrying 27 crewmen in all, had just completed the first round-the-world nonstop jet flight in record-breaking time: they...
...Jordan that had no place for Nasser. It took Nasser hours of talk, including a two-hour session with Saud alone, before agreement came. Reportedly, Saud and Nasser will each put up a yearly $15 million. Syria $7.5 million. The minute his signature was affixed to the document, the silent King Saud hustled out to the airport and took off for Naples...
When the last guest had departed at 1:30. and the house had become silent, the hostess followed her regular custom. Recalls her personal maid of 20 years: "This was the time she loved best. She would walk around and look at everything again. She used to say: 'It's a lovely house for a party...
...most hated of Hungarians. Despite frantic appeals, he has been unable to enlist the support of those non-Communist elements which backed Nagy, and though reports of new coalitions are issued from his office weekly, the voice of the Peasant leaders, the Smallholders party and the Social Democrats are silent...
Jordan's successor as Harvard football coach is expected to be named shortly. The Faculty Committee on Athletics, while recommending Jordan's release, had also suggested backfield coach "Josh" Williams as his replacement. To date, the Corporation has taken no action on this recommendation, and has remained silent about this and other possible suggestions...