Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made to vibrate all over if it is hit hard enough. This behavior was predicted more than 80 years ago, but it was first detected with certainty after the Chile quake, when new instruments were ready and watching for it. The whole earth rang like a great, silent bell for two weeks. Its fundamental note had a period of about 54 minutes, which is more than 20 octaves below middle C, vastly too low for human ears to hear...
Harvard bats were silent in the next three contests: but the team kept on winning with a combination of scratch singles, sacrifices, steals, and brilliant pitching...
...Archbishop of Paris, then Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, repeating his suggestion. He did not criticize the Pope, Tisserant insisted last week, giving copies of the letter to the press. His target was the Roman Curia, which, Tisserant charged, had a tacit agreement with Hitler: the Curia would remain silent in exchange for making Rome an open city. "That is a disgrace," wrote Tisserant. "I am afraid history will reproach the Holy See for having followed a policy which was convenient to itself, and for not having done much else. This is extremely...
Radcliffe is a "big" novel of the kind which, in English literature, at least, has been turned out almost exclusively by U.S. writers since World War II. Weighty issues are mentioned weightily, and the kettledrums are almost never silent. Before Storey is through, he has confronted the reader with the alienation of the individual, the decline of the aristocratic tradition, the nastiness of the mass, the calamitous Christian duality of soul and body, and almost everything else that could be considered a factor in the decline of the West. Given a Norman Mailer of their own after years of Kingsley...
Speaking at a Tocsin-sponsored forum, Fall said that the silent menace posed by the United States' Seventh Fleet, and the bitter memory of 1000 years of Chinese rule might be sufficient to impel President Ho Chi Minh to agree to a permanent stalemate in the current conflict...