Word: silents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris he had a change of heart. He came home again. He lived among fears that the Germans would snatch him for desertion, that the Resistance would sentence him for treason. On Liberation Day, Claude disappeared into the sand dunes along the Channel coast. Silent and morose, he lived in deserted German bunkers until the Resistance brought him to trial. He was acquitted...
...Circle, in midtown, the dingy green loudspeaker, which used to blare out cacophonous versions of Strauss waltzes, has been silent for weeks. The shouting, arm-waving throng of money changers has dwindled to a few clusters. Only the silver dollar hawkers have kept up their professional spirits. They hang around street corners, clinking gleaming stacks of coins, their orthodox blue Chinese gowns topped by broad-brimmed brown fedoras that give them, from the neck up, that zooty air usually associated with Broadway characters in Li'l Abner. The price of their coins, like the price of everything else...
...carbon black, the toughening agent which comprises about 30% of a tire's rubber carcass and tread. The supply from the U.S. had been cut because of Britain's shortage of dol lars. "For days," remembered one grimy worker, Leslie Joseph Pridmore, last week, "our machines stood silent and we were idle. Without 'black' we couldn...
...underwent a thorough lecture course on mural painting and on pre-Cortesian sculpture. Rivera showed them hundreds of his sculptures, one by one, and stood for hours on end while he explained his archaeological theories. He also accompanied them on a trip to see his murals. After a long, silent examination of one of them Rivera turned and said: "I haven't seen this mural since I painted it. I like...
When he was asked to discuss U.S.Brazilian relations, Vargas was silent for fully two minutes as he toyed with an unlit cigar, crumpled a handkerchief, and looked out across his rolling pastures. Then he said: "Roosevelt trusted me. He believed that Brazil should be a great country. A strong Brazil would make a strong ally-a good customer. We were right when we had that point of view...