Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alert. Since then, Wessin y Wessin had kept out of sight at San Isidro, silent and brooding. Then last week Provisional President Hector Garcia-Godoy bowed to the rebels with a decree abolishing Wessin y Wessin's command. That brought the general to life. The San Isidro airbase radio crack led with bitter charges of Communist influence on Garcia-Godoy: "Again, we are on the alert!" The threat of renewed fighting sent waves of panic through Santo Domingo. Both the OAS and the U.S. agreed that Wessin y Wessin...
...anyhow? He has failed his exams, so he cannot go to the university. He hates his own "girlish hands and all beaked nose thrusting out blindly like a day-old bird's." He is a Roman Catholic in dull bourgeois Belfast, where the "papist" minority moves with silent loathing among the majority Protestants -"the Prods." In short he feels doomed, and no one disputes his judgment. Not his solicitor father, an Eire-iiber-alles bigot who delights in Hitler's early military victories. Not his complacent mother, not his studious brother, not his pretty sister nor even...
...horse-drawn Russian army cart creaked to a halt before the cement cellblock at Auschwitz. Gathering their tattered bundles, a dozen silent men crawled into the wagon, huddled together against the cold, and jolted through the gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial...
...demanded nullification of the treaty, dissolution of the "one-party" Assembly, and general elections "to reflect the people's will." As the clashes increased daily in intensity, with 875 students jailed and 1,000 injured, an anti-American mood grew more apparent. A typical slogan was "Yankees Keep Silent," underscoring the student belief that Washington is behind Park's Japan policy; things were not helped by recent announcement of U.S. plans to increase procurement in Japan of military items needed in Viet Nam and readily available in Korea. "While Korean soldiers are to share their blood in Viet...
...seldom move without a command, during that vital interval before the forces of segregation, then disunited, gathered and took charge. The only voice that might have prevented this, says Thurman, that might have stirred the moderates and won the liberals, was President Eisenhower's−and Eisenhower kept silent until the situation had already degenerated into violence at Little Rock...