Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through all this, most other Republicans on the national scene remained timidly silent, leaving Nixon alone on the skyline. The partisan attacks on him were so frequent and so violent that their total impact left many a U.S. voter with an indefinable but nevertheless real doubt about Richard Nixon...
...Detroit News, which got the flash from its own correspondent, Martin S. Hayden. An operator waiting at a special number for Hayden's call connected him with a waiting editor, who was holding an extra phone open to the pressroom. There printers were poised over two silent presses with plates headed IKE SAYS YES and IKE SAYS NO. After Hayden's call it took the News one minute to start rolling out extras. Elsewhere extras hit the streets in as little as seven minutes (New York Post, Long Island's Newsday) and almost everywhere within the hour...
With the cry of the bailiff one morning last week, the jampacked courtroom in Birmingham's Federal Building fell silent, stood as Judge H. Hobart Grooms, lanky veteran of more than a quarter century of practice as a Birmingham lawyer, took his place. Beyond the closed courtroom doors, in the corridor, latecomers waited patiently, hoping for a chance at seats...
...newspapers were not silent about arrests and executions in other parts of the country. Month after month the Hsiao Mieh totals were issued, almost always in round figures: 1,150,000 in the central-south provinces, 1,176,000 in "four administrative regions," 300,000 in the five northwest provinces, and so on. Said Lo calmly: "A large number of people with blood debts have been executed...
...doesn't really matter, because everything is in the hands of Colonel Buyers, a strong, silent type. In response to one Buyers order, a humane but misguided underling speaks up in a line of dialogue dear to a thousand movie writers: "Dammit, Buyers! . . . You're not God! There must be twenty thousand people trapped in there. They'll burn unless we get them out." There are at least 40,000, and the like of the fire that rolls over them has not been seen since David O. Selznick put the Technicolor torch to Atlanta in Gone With...