Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with responsibilities the world over, needs to be as flexible and mobile as possible. Washington learned a lesson from both World War II and the Korean War aftermaths: the longer a division remains committed in a foreign country such as West Germany or South Korea after the guns fall silent, the more difficult is it to redeploy it elsewhere in an emergency-often because U.S. troops become pawns in foreign politics...
...Boerne, Tex., school board hired two Roman Catholic Benedictine sisters to teach math and English, now faces petitions from Protestants who claim that the sisters' habits constitute "silent, striking teaching of sectarian religion...
Though the electromagnetic submarine's silent, virtually undetectable operation makes it of prime interest to the Navy, Way is convinced that its greatest future lies in the development of super submarine tankers. Since the efficiency of an electromagnetic submarine increases with size, the visionary engineer is already looking forward to the day when 100,000-ton monsters will move silently beneath the surface of the world's oceans, carrying vast quantities of crude oil and gasoline safe from the storm-tossed water above them...
Editor Frank Conniff propped his feet on his desk and took command of a city room that had been painfully silent for months. Word was out that the New York newspaper strike was over at last. The pressmen, last of the squabbling unions to make peace, had finally settled; the stereotypers were scheduled to vote approval of their contract at week's end. The long-deferred New York World Journal Tribune was actually getting ready to put out a newspaper, and Conniff's phone rang constantly. Columnist after columnist wanted to ask his new boss for the honor...
During the Administrations of his two Democratic successors, Harry S Truman has carefully refrained from making any pronouncements critical of their policies. Last week the man from Missouri found that he could keep silent no longer. "There is a matter," he said in a formal statement, "about which I am so deeply concerned that I feel it has become necessary for me to speak out." The matter is one that is on the minds of a great many Americans, from housewives to investment bankers to the President of the U.S. himself: the tightest money the U.S. has seen since...