Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history, for instance, is told in terms of Sioux war bonnets, branding irons, and presidential campaign posters picked from the collection of John DeWitt, chairman of the Travelers Insurance Companies. Art ranges from antique duck decoys to banners of pop art; rock 'n' roll gets the silent treatment with a collection of famous guitars, including the favorite: Presley's own. Male individuality is illustrated with a collection of 300 hats; the universality of childhood with a jungle-gymful of Raggedy Ann dolls and a 20-minute film of children playing...
Hanging Tough. Team Two measured the passage of the night in careful inhalations, silent exhalations, and the clack of bamboo signal sticks used by the Viet Cong patrols that passed within 50 feet of its hideout. Then, at 2 a.m., a single shot blasted the night: Brown's radio man, shifting his M16, had accidentally triggered a tracer round -almost certainly disclosing the team's position. Brown hung tough, hoping that the cross-wave of jungle echoes would confuse the enemy searchers. It did, and at dawn the team moved back in to hunt out the Viet Cong...
...neighboring housewife and making what the court called "remarks or questions of the irritatingly offensive, adolescent, sex variety." The woman who claimed to have been called never appeared at any hearing. Neither Gerald nor his parents were advised of any right to counsel or of his right to keep silent. They had little or no advance notice of the charges against him. No transcript was kept of the proceedings, and no appeal was possible. It took a writ of habeas corpus to get any sort of review. The offense was punishable by a maximum of two months...
...charges. He must be given the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses against him. For his hearing to be fair, he must also be told of his right to counsel-a court-appointed counsel if he is indigent-and he must be told of his right to remain silent...
...they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Hopper was a genius of this kind; he painted not only what Americans have seen from the corners of their eyes, but what they have dimly thought and felt about it. People sitting on porches or by windows, the silent, sun-drenched Cape Cod houses or rows of blank-faced Manhattan store fronts on an early Sunday morning-all are vignettes glimpsed and pondered by a reflective traveler...