Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...representative. Menzies, who earlier in the week had been riding to conference sessions with a TV set in his limousine so as not to miss a minute of the Australia v. England cricket matches, pronounced his committee's task so delicate that "we should all be as silent as Trappist monks." By week's end Cairo intimated that Nasser would receive the conference's proposals "as a matter of courtesy." Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was asked what would happen if Nasser should reject their proposals. Said Lloyd: "I hope that is precisely the question...
...reserves of oil in the world lie beneath Arab soil. Have I made clear how great the importance of this element of strength is? So we are strong−strong not in the loudness of our voices when we wail or shout for help, but rather when we remain silent and . . . really understand the strength resulting from the ties binding us together...
...working at all times. Last week grey, ramrod-straight Monarch Captain James P. F. Betson, who kept in phone contact with shore technicians over the cable even as he was paying it out. gave it a glowing testimonial: "There is no background noise at all ... it is truly the silent voice under the ocean...
Married. Francis X. (for,Xavier) Bushman, 73, great lover of silent films (Ben Hur, Graustark), who made' $6,000,000 in his heyday (1911-18); and Mrs. Iva Millicent Richardson, 53; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...
...just learned this costly trade and had the Japanese on the run when they were pulled out north by river boat and truck and dumped on the mountain village of Kohima, a collection of huts 5,000 ft. high in the jungle. Kohima was inconsiderable in the long, silent history of its mountains, except that it commanded the Imphal Road and the Ledo Railway, invasion highways. There the 4th Battalion of the Royal West Kents, Colonel John Laverty commanding, took position on April Fool's Day, 1944. They had four days to dig in. There were 500 of them...