Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radios became silent. Then, at 11:32, United Air Lines in Los Angeles received three words of an urgent message. A tense voice without identifying itself called: "We are going . . ." Again, silence. Nothing was heard again from either plane...
...great Soviet land, the leadership of the struggle for peace and the good right hand stretched out to colonial people and oppressed people everywhere. But I must say that if Russia has in me a friend, it also has a severe and implacable critic. Never again will I remain silent when I can recognize injustice, regardless of how that injustice may be wrapped in the dirty linen of expediency or necessity. Never again will I fail to question, to demand proof. Never again will I accept the 'clever' rationale, which appears to make sense but under scrutiny does...
...week, Italian Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti gave the measure of how deeply the Khrushchev revelations had shaken party foundations in Italy. Stalin "committed many errors," purred red-eyed Palmiro, "but he also did many good things . . . This was the strange mistake made at the 20th Party Congress: to be silent about the merits of Stalin...
Windbag Who Babbles. There is something odd about the man, Fletcher, a windbag who babbles about irrigating the Karroo with atomic power and establishing a world government on the lines of South Africa's present Nationalist regime. The man's wife is silent and bitter. But the pair beg the students to stay with them for a free holiday. Thus the boys come to sense the fear that lies under Fletcher's racial brag. The house is subtly menaced by a big old illiterate Kaffir, Joseph, who just hangs about. Man and wife are desperately afraid...
...Hoodwinked. Most of Europe's' top Reds were in Moscow when the speech was made to the Party Congress last February, and (though barred from the secret session for Russians only) had read it in transcript. On returning to their own countries they remained silent about it, while inaugurating piecemeal efforts to downgrade Stalin. Last week, as large slabs of the speech hit the front pages of non-Communist European newspapers, the storm broke over the heads of the cautious...