Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German people were silent and sad. There was no enthusiasm for the war and little desire to talk about it. But the crisis had brought them closer together. On the streets and in public places they showed one another the courtesy of unhappy people who know that others are unhappy...
...position in his medium of expression, that of stone, as James Joyce does in the world of the novel, and his work is as difficult to grasp as Joyce's. To the religious person, the ADAM looms large as a distasteful desecration of the scriptures; some people gaze in silent admiration; others use the statue as the butt of obscene vilification...
...attache in Washington, he acquainted himself with U. S. naval strategy and Franklin Roosevelt (when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy). A remarkably huge Japanese-six feet tall and nearly 200 pounds-he lost an eye fighting in Shanghai. In public gatherings he alternately dozes and rolls with silent laughter. His good nature will be hard for U. S. diplomats to resist, but in case Japan has to do the resisting, he is a Navy man: smile for smile, fleet for fleet...
Unwilling to miss a trick, Cinemakers Darryl F. Zanuck, Walter Wanger and Sam Briskin hired the United Press "executive leased wire service" for war coverage-about 10,000 words daily on new streamlined, silent teletype machines. Cost per month...
...bombing women, children, wounded. When Nazi indifference to individuals robs him of a girl, his mind is coldly, bitterly lucid: murder comes easy. Afterwards he slumps to a park bench, a "funny little sentence" running through his head: "At the beginning of a new age, angels stand in the silent darkness-angels with dim eyes and fiery swords." He wakes to find himself covered with snow, and a child runs up crying that he is a snowman. Thinks he: "And you'll grow up, and you'll remember the soldier. . . . Your children will tell you that this soldier...