Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked across the river to Dillon and started getting taped. The team was silent, but not frighteningly so; the rock 'n' roll blared on the radio as Jack Fadden and his staff covered almost everyone's legs with tape...
WORLD WITHOUT SUN. In this fascinating, full-color documentary by Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (The Silent World), seven oceanauts spend a month in a manfish bowl full fathom five below the surface...
...Writing. But who is to say when the President is incapacitated? The Constitution is silent. President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon worked out an arrangement between themselves. So did President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson. So have Johnson and Vice President Humphrey. But these agreements have no constitutional standing, and it was to provide such a basis that Johnson sent to Congress his proposals for an amendment. The present situation, he said, "constitutes an indefensible folly for our responsible society. Common sense impels, duty requires us to act-and to act now, without further delay...
...monument in Trafalgar Square, by the National Gallery, where the flag hung at half-mast, and into the Strand moved the gun carriage, which had borne the regal corpses of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI. Along the way the pavements were thronged with silent watchers, and the white topees of Royal Marines dotted the route like snowdrops...
...Silent as a Ghost. The G.M. sleds resemble the Podars about as much as a Corvette does a Corvair. The innovations include shock absorbers and sports-car-type "direct" steering (v. the Podar's rope-controlled runners). In trial runs at Lake Placid, N.Y., last month, a two-man G.M. sled beat the best time of a heavier, four-man Podar -and the four-man G.M. was faster yet. At St. Moritz last week, astonished European bobbers nicknamed the two man sled "the Ghost" because its rubber-seated runners merely whispered over the ice-while the Podars clattered...