Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disembark in the unanimous night, no one saw the bamboo canoe sinking into the sacred mud, but within a few days no one was unaware that the silent man came from the South and that his home was one of the infinite villages upstream, on the violent mountainside, where the Zend tongue is not contaminated with Greek and where leprosy is infrequent...
During Lady Bird's speech on beautification to a closed audience, her press secretary moved from table to table suggesting, "I'd like to see a standing ovation." Outside, meanwhile, 1200 students were holding a 10-minute silent demonstration, when suddenly a record-player blared in a nearby dorm room window...
...Viet Nam at night (carriers operate too far from the coast for crewmen to witness strikes), argued that the war was "immoral." Anderson urged others "to follow in our footsteps," said he did not believe the majority of pilots "were in favor of the war" but preferred to remain silent. Barilla declared that he was "against war, all war," and that "the majority of Americans do not want to fight in Viet Nam." Their willing hosts clucked in satisfaction. One interviewer applauded them for choosing "a path of courage." Pravda praised "their brave decision, dictated by human conscience...
...hour later, two hippies clambered to a porch outside the bathroom window and looked in. They saw Billy's body in the tub. His wrists had been slashed and a broken wine bottle thrust deep into his chest. Billy's mother, Carol Metherd, 24, sat silent on the puddled floor, her hands, T shirt and slacks soaked with blood. The two horrified hippies smashed their way into the room. Carol later curled on the floor in a fetal position; her only sign of life was the rolling of her eyes...
...attributed the better-than-expected showings, particularly in Ward 1, to a "silent vote" of residents who did not express their support to CNCV canvassers, but voted yes anyway...