Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support what I believe to be in the best interests of my country," says Humphrey. "That is why I support the President. If I felt I could not, I would either keep silent or I would resign." (The only Vice President who quit was John C. Calhoun, who left the Jackson Administration in 1832 to battle for states' rights in the Senate...
Fielding made the difference. The Springfield pitcher held the usually booming Crimson bats silent, and it was only on errors and close fielding plays that the home forces were able to get on base. The Yardling defense, as usual, was airtight...
...mysterious, silent schmurz expires before the man does. But before the curtain falls, four others like him are crawling like rubber-suited crocodiles, silent and ominous, into the room. And what that may mean is anyone's guess...
...third and final act, there is no one left but the father--and the schmurz, still silent but now beginning to make contact: moving packages which the man has brought upstairs to this his ultimate retreat, yet still dumb, still quietly menacing...
...Washington, D.C., on a Friday afternoon two weeks ago, it was two huge pillars of gray smoke rising above the tan brick office buildings of K Street. Absolutely silent, thousands of cars filled with white government workers were evacuating the city. Every afternoon, they head for the bridges over the Potomac River in tangled horn-honking confusion, with their blue Maryland and black Virginia plates. But today, they were locked together bumper-to-bumper, heading for Key Bridge in a massive, determined phalanx. No one blew a horn. Quietly, the shirtsleeved car-pool drivers and passengers looked over their shoulders...