Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gallico Silent Miaow...
warships in the Indian Ocean. But in the face of the Chinese outrage, Colombo is eloquently silent." Few Indians, however, seem to realize that a nuclear stockpile would not in itself confer parity with China...
...salvage some meaning from the assassination. W. H. Auden's quiet meditation has been set to music by Stravinsky and will have us U.S. première in New York on Dec. 6: Why then? Why there? Why thus, we cry, did he die? The Heavens are silent. What he was, he was: What he is fated to become Depends on us. Remembering his death, How we choose to live Will decide its meaning. When a just man dies, Lamentation and praise, Sorrow...
...your Southernness." The Brown Decision in 1954 elicited a moderate reaction even from traditional Southerners, but no Southern leaders called for obedience to the law. Governers, senators, and congresmen by their silence allowed the White Citizens Councils, "outside agitators from Mississippi," to enter, and the Councils did not remain silent. The politicians followed their lead...
...about TVA and social security than the race issue, voted for L.B.J. He even carried Gary, Ind., where racial tensions were taut and Alabama's Governor George Wallace had scored heavily in a presidential primary. The Johnson landslide also destroyed Republican theories that there might be a large "silent vote" cast by conservatives who had not voted regularly before and who did not want to tell pollsters they planned to vote for Barry. Nor did large numbers of voters pass up the presidential race out of apathy or coolness toward both candidates. The presidential vote broke all records...