Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anger in Israel. The world's reaction -and particularly the Pope's words-evoked a bitter response in Israel, which met the censure with surprise, bewilderment and then anger. Israel's Minister for Religious Affairs, Zorach Warhaftig, replied that "the Pope's voice was silent when Jewish worshipers were attacked at the tomb of the patriarchs in Hebron," referring to a grenade attack that injured 48 Israelis in October. Then, unable to stop there, he went on to castigate Pius XII for being silent "when millions of Jews were murdered" during World War II. Israel rejected...
...reaction elsewhere. Young Japanese, with little knowledge of prewar Japan, dismissed it as incomprehensible. To older people it was hardly news, although it aroused a bit of nostalgia for the good old days among some of the men. The Premier, true to his wife's characterization, remained silent; an aide reported that he had only laughed when he read the interview...
...sympathized with me and counseled him against resorting to violence against me. He was not without affection toward me, to be sure, but he certainly did not have the ability to express it. Girls nowadays would simply walk out on him. Even at home he was always oddly silent and played solitaire. He's been playing solitaire these past 40 years, when I think of it. He certainly proved reluctant to open his mouth and say things to me. Instead, before he opened his mouth, his hand came...
...land, Miramar's own marching band stepped up and began a series of hopelessly incongruous songs, like "Windy" or the Gillette Razor song. Midway into their third number ("The Girl Watcher's Theme"), the band stopped abruptly. Two planes were zooming in from the north; the crowd was suddenly silent and the families rushed up to the wire fence by the runway...
Bucher asked for a silent prayer and slipped back from the microphone. The ritual of bearing the casket from the plane to a hearse continued. It has become a familiar airport ritual, one that most Americans have shared on television. As each of the caskets has flown in--from Dallas and Los Angeles, and now from Korea--there is the same sense of numb rage against violence. There were 82 living people to go along with this casket, but the feeling was the same...