Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ghana! Ghana!"-the name of an ancient West African black empire which Nkrumah has chosen for the new state (TIME, July 30). Then the Nkrumah supporters broke into their party's battle song, Victory for Us. Men representing the country's Ashanti and Northern Territories opposition sat silent. Their acting leader said, however, that his side welcomed the announcement, and next day the opposition parties agreed to join Nkrumah in working out a new constitution reconciling their "regional aspirations" with his centralizing policy. The British were delighted. Having decided on the big gamble of granting the Gold Coast...
...Silent World (Columbia). With the Aqua-Lung, which he invented in collaboration with an engineer named Emile Gagnan, a 46-year-old captain in the French navy, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, provided the wings on which both Sunday sportsmen and serious scientists have gone soaring with a new freedom into the wild green yonder. In The Silent World, which since its publication in 1953 has sold almost 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone, Cousteau composed a poetic primer of underwater exploration. In this film Cousteau has tried to fill the screen with the same "rapture of the great depths" that...
...herself with sake. Consolation became alcoholic degradation, and Harris would have nothing more to do with her. No samurai, but still a carpenter. Tsuru-Matsu came back and married her; but love and liquor would not mix. When she was told that Townsend Harris had been buried "among the silent hills of Brooklyn." Okichi lingered on a few years, then suffered a paralytic stroke; dragging herself painfully to the banks of the Inubusawa River, she committed suicide...
...show in the way of aircraft. Most of the planes were familar subsonic models, or experimental craft such as Fairey's supersonic Delta, current official speed-record holder (at 1,132 m.p.h.). But while all eyes turned skyward, most of the real stars of Farnborough sat silent in ground exhibits. They were Britain's new aircraft engines. Observed London's Economist: "There are more really good engines in Britain today than there are aircraft for them to drive...
...Khrushchev or Molotov presents itself to the world as the visage of modern Russia. But Russia was once represented by nobler faces, and Alexander Herzen was among them. Contemplating the ruins of the Roman Empire, he said: "The wisest of the Romans vanished from the scene ... in the silent grandeur of their grief." In Herzen himself, the West today can sense the not-so-silent grandeur of a lost philosopher and a lost...