Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Uncle Eph. On Capitol Hill, it is considered sophisticated to stay silent on the floor but to be influential behind the scenes. Ervin is not tremendously influential behind the scenes- and he is certainly not silent on the floor. But he has a way of relaxing Senate tensions when he speaks. He was still a freshman member of the Senate when, in 1954, the bitter Senate debate over the censure of Republican Joe McCarthy came up. At one point, when Senators seemed about to come to blows, Ervin arose. He told a typical tale about Uncle Ephraim. The poor...
...Silent Mirror. Though the book is overlong and exaggeratedly dramatic, it is full of surprising incidents. When Jenny stayed with friends in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen would come around to tell stories to the children of the house, a pretext for seeing her. He fell in love with her. He wrote The Emperor's Nightingale for her. When she was cold toward him, he wrote The Snow Queen. When he begged her to marry him, she silently handed him a mirror. That night, he wrote The Ugly Duckling. (Author Schultz offers a modified version of this famous anecdote...
...cake has been eaten, there comes a final passage whose treacle might have been spooned by the master herself: "'Darling Lavinia,' said Lord Mellings, 'Are you sure you really want to marry me?' To which foolish question he neither expected nor received anything but a silent answer. And so they lingered in Golden Valley for a short, precious time, while from faraway Barchester came the chime of bells, and the setting sun struck a last glint of light from the most beautiful cathedral spire in England...
Behind the customary bread-and-butter issues lay disputes so stubborn that the siege in the two cities seemed unlikely to lift soon. In Detroit, the unions were crying "lockout" at the unstruck but silent News. In Minneapolis, the mailers' union held fast to their right, under challenge by the publishers, to tie newspapers into bundles before loading onto trucks...
...Outrageous!" trumpeted Erhard. At his insistence, West Germany's Cabinet discussed the possibility of punishing the automakers by cutting the tariffs on imported cars. But Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, never averse to taking would-be Heir Apparent Erhard down a peg, remained silent, and at week's end, despite continuing blasts from Erhard and the threat of three parliamentary investigations, the automakers still stood fast...