Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danced over Samoa, flashed across remote Campbell Island 5,600 miles from Johnston Island. On the northern side of the magnetic equator, where the same atmospheric force lines dive into the atmosphere, parts of Alaska saw the northern version of New Zealand's aurora. The explosion itself was silent to human ears, but its power caused the earth's atmosphere and magnetic field to vibrate, jangling scientific instruments all around the world...
Eble writes about the "silent, secret, submerged" art of teaching, where it may best be looked for, and why it is hard to appraise; and about research and the humanities vs. science rivalry. He deplores rightly that an excessive research-mindedness has produced a condition where "foreign languages are taught as mere tools rather than as the vital center of humanistic studies they once were...
Died. Rex Bell (real name: George Beldam), 58, Nevada's ten-gallon lieutenant governor and the Republican nominee in this year's gubernatorial race, who in 1931, as a six-gun star of the silent screen, eloped with Clara (the "It Girl") Bow, once owned a 600,000-acre ranch, which he sold in 1953 when he won office; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...
Jagan tried to duck the question, but Committee Chairman Sir Henry Wynn Parry insisted on an answer. "If he continues to be silent on the issue," said Parry, "the commission will be forced to take note that the witness has avoided answering this vital question." Enraged, Jagan shouted: "I believe the tenets of Communism to mean 'from each according to his ability and to each according to his need.' And I believe that represents the Communist belief and I accept it." Still angry, he went on to say that he admired Fidel Castro as "the greatest liberator...
When black-tie guests at Bobby Kennedy's Hickory Hill estate found themselves bobbing, fully clad in the moonlit swimming pool fortnight ago, no one worried about the dozen reporters who were present. Each was a trusted insider who could be counted on to remain discreetly silent. But four days later news of the soggy soiree was in print across the nation. As might have been expected, the byline belonged to Betty Beale, 50, society columnist for the Washington Star...