Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five weeks of battle had disappeared-perhaps deeper into the mountains, possibly into Cambodia. The American 1st Air Cavalry, which took some 240 dead and 470 wounded in the largest U.S. weekly casualty list since the Korean War, remained in charge of the field. With the guns silent, the men themselves grew talkative, recalling the vivid episodes of humor, horror and heroism that the weeks of wild fighting had etched in their minds...
Loudspeakers boomed out messages of doom to the attackers: "We have just killed your commander" and "Our brothers have just captured three of your recoilless rifles." One by one, the Red guns fell silent; then the defenders fixed their bayonets and sprinted from their rifle pits. The Reds fled-only to return in regimental strength four days later and trigger a bloody battle among the rubber trees that was still raging at week...
Flags flew at half-mast in a dozen countries. Chanted verses from the Koran replaced other programs on Iraq and Sudan television. Lebanon's Parliament stood five minutes in silent tribute. Kuwait radiomen wept over the air as they described his funeral. Behind his flag-draped casket walked both wailing women and men in tears. They weren't all Kuwaitis. Sobbed a visiting Jordanian: "I wish it had been me who had to die instead...
...fists were clenched to throw sacks of confetti right in our faces-hard. The same with the flowers. And then you see the little faces of the kids, with their really mean expressions." Some people thought that was a rather mean expression by little Liesbeth, but Beatrix fell discreetly silent...
...airline ticket to romantic places. The girl is in blue chiffon, the boy in a tuxedo, and they are dancing as if Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers had coached them. They stop, gently holding each other, and then are held by an invisible silent partner, Eros perhaps, that mischievously demanding deity who turns a moment of playful diversion to the strong mysterious purposes of love...