Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Security Council was the youngest man at the table. Placing his tan leather briefcase beside his chair, Vice President Richard Nixon leaned forward and opened the meeting in a grave, clear voice: "Gentlemen, as we all know, it is the custom of the Cabinet to open with a silent prayer. While this has not been the practice of the Security Council, may I propose a moment of silent prayer of thanksgiving for the marvelous record of recovery the President has made up to this hour...
...week's end, Adenauer went before the Bundestag to ask formal approval of his mission. "In extraordinarily difficult negotiations, we have made of a given situation what was humanly and politically possible," he said. Uneasy and largely silent, the Bundestag unanimously approved Adenauer's deal...
Margarita is silent on this, too. He just keeps drilling and teaching and hoping that he will have a team for his own schedule this year and something of value for Lloyd Jordan next year...
...government buildings in Pretoria. They were members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League. In the two months since, the few have grown to 20,000 members in 200 towns. Whenever a Minister arrived at a public ceremony, 40 or 50 women gathered and formed a silent gauntlet. When one Cabinet Minister flew from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth to Durban to Johannesburg, Black Sashers were on hand. 50 strong, at each airport to give him a grim, silent greeting...
Everywhere South Africa's Prime Minister Johannes Strydom looked, there seemed to be women-white women in black sashes, silent and contemptuous, heads bowed in symbolic "mourning for the constitution." Whenever he passed, they lifted their heads and stared...