Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other installations, in New England five. Detroit's suburban Highland Park Presbyterian Church (one of four in Michigan) lists its "Lifeline" phone number in the newspapers, and when Minister Robert C. Young, 36, hears from his office the low buzz of a new call, he makes a short, silent prayer for the caller...
...cemetery alone there were 12,000 new graves, black coffins piled high, and people searching for the names of missing kin. More than 8,000 homes had been destroyed. The people's spirit was still determined, but the black shadow of Serov, the constant stream of silent deportations, was having its effect. It took courage to continue to resist. Budapest had the courage...
...Vienna one day last week a Telex machine, ominously silent for almost a week, suddenly sprang to life. Slowly and with much stuttering an unknown keyboard operator in Budapest hammered out the following message...
...first time, a country wife. She told him that she had a boy the same age as Marcelino, and that his name was Manuel. Marcelino could not take his eyes off her. At last he said wonderingly. "You're very beautiful." After that Marcelino was some times strangely silent. One day he asked Brother Cookie. "Does everybody have a mother?" "Of course." "Even the Father Superior?" "Yes." "Where is mine?" "In Heaven." "Was she beautiful?" There was a pause; then Brother Cookie looked straight into the boy's eyes and said simply, "She was very beautiful." Marcelino...
...widespread that radio stations canceled regular programs and switched to serious music; the opening of the annual carnival season was postponed indefinitely; bars and dance halls were empty for much of the week. At noon one day, all work and traffic throughout West Germany was halted for three silent minutes, and for three days flags were lowered to half-staff. There were mass demonstrations in every major city and university town, topped by an outburst of 100,000 in West Berlin...