Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Thruston B. Morton trotted up to the Capitol with the President's précis of the proposal to brief the Senate's leaders. At the end of his message, the President asked for support in the form of "comment." At first, Republican leaders were silent. Then 19 G.O.P...
...Eisenhower double bombshell was cheered by Britain's Eden and France's Faure; but Premier Bulganin of Russia was silent. Our guess is that Bulgy was dumbfounded. The West unquestionably grabbed the initiative at Geneva. The man who did that was our own President Eisenhower. It is hard to imagine how he could have done it more dramatically, or in a way better calculated to put the Kremlin on one of the hottest spots it has ever yet occupied. Our feeling about it all: Hurray...
...bronze piece, managed to choke out a noncommittal "Novel." But it reminded him of the "stovepipes" turned out by Britain's Reginald Butler, who "has no conception of form." He then invited his entourage of sculptors to debate or just plain chat with him. When all kept respectfully silent, Epstein happily began tossing his horns. One of his gratuitous victims: famed Dutch Abstractionist Piet Mondrian, whose linoleum-like linearities have floored museum walls for two decades. Said Sir Jacob flatly: "A faker!" A museum director murmured a shocked "Oh, no!" Epstein snapped: "An open mind is an empty mind...
...livelier place with Johnson there, the U.S. Senate was far less zestful with him gone. His standin, Kentucky's Clements, is a bland, backroom politician whose only spiciness lies in his strong taste for Tabasco sauce, which he pours unstintingly into his soups and salad dressings. In his silent way, Clements has been singularly successful in the business of getting himself elected to public office: he has been a sheriff, county judge, state senator, U.S. Representative, governor and Senator...
...Silent, Run Deep. In Birmingham, the Jefferson County Sportsman's Association announced that a scheduled fish fry had been canceled because association members had failed over the weekend to catch enough fish to make it worthwhile...