Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them all turned out to be a Southerner: Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman. Husky, affable Governor Coleman, who learned how to handle extremists in his home state, kept his head when the thunder began to rumble at Chicago. Under his steadying hand, Platform Committee Southerners sat silent, although glum, through a parade of outspokenly civil-righteous witnesses, e.g., A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who demanded that "the Democratic Party must declare that it is not in favor of thwarting a decision of the Supreme Court...
...household was apparently changing countries on its own hook; Panamanian officials vowed that they had no complaints about Perón's behavior. Perón himself was silent on why he was moving, but one reason was probably his peeve at being asked to leave Panama during the conference of American Presidents. He might also desire to close ranks with the colony of Peronist exiles in Venezuela, some of them doing well in the booming horse-racing business. As Perón landed in Caracas, he was cheered by some 100 of these supporters with a fervor reminiscent...
...quite interested in the results of the survey of college professors who read TIME [July 23]. I would be even more interested to learn how many died-in-the-wool Democrats like me read TIME each week, writhe in silent anger, vow to cancel their subscriptions, and then camp by the mailbox waiting for the next issue...
...moment the crowd remained silent in confusion. Then a few quickwitted Christian Democrats began to cheer. They remembered a queer quirk in the Italian electoral law: in case of tie votes, the older man is chosen. And 52-year-old La Pira happens to be 18 months older than Socialist Ramat...
...behind the pilots. Engines rumbling, then roaring, the B50 gathered speed, rose into the brightening sky. Everest waited until the B50 had labored to 30,000 ft., snugged down helmet and oxygen mask for the last time, then walked aft and let himself down into the cockpit of the silent...