Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese navy consisted of "nothing except thousands of junks." The type who laughs compulsively whenever he hears the word "junk" laughed, and Young--apparently encouraged--went on to coin a new phrase--"junks full of Chinks." It was an awkward moment all around. Some hissed; most were pointedly silent and the Ohio Senator had no easy time of it recovering...
Deep in the bowels of Widener, an unnoticed cardboard box languishes under a soft blanket of dust amid myriad shelves of forgotten books. Once every few days, a leisurely old man walks down the silent aisle and stops, pulling the cord for a naked bulb to dispel the gloom. Bending over to the bottom shelf, the white-haired man takes out the box and lifts its lid. He smiles...
...life can be came too late--and too painfully--to do anything at all." She admits she continues to direct her books at that generation, writing passionate, if somewhat untenable, perfaces about her consoeurs who "lie beside their husbands at night...afraid to ask even of themselves the silent question--'Is this all?'" She then rushes into effusions about "marvelously talented college girls who will bear children so much stabler than the neurotic children of my generation." Never tying one though to another, she hurries on: "Children of working mothers don't really care that their mothers aren...
...most vociferous supporter, next to the Governor himself, has been Collins -- a power in the state Democratic party. Furthermore, the bill is not one that pits liberal against conservative, for most of the state's liberals have either supported it, or out of personal loyalty to Donahue, remained discreetly silent. Finally, the bill is hardly a confrontation between rich and poor; it is a limited tax which exempts food, medicine, clothing, rent, fuel, utilities and other necessities and offers a credit to low income families...
...Notable Silence. Despite all his pleas for tolerance of repressive regimes abroad, Fulbright has never voted for a federal civil rights bill and has remained notably silent on the Negro's drive for full citizenship. His public indifference to the race issue has not hurt him in Arkansas, which still tends toward white supremacy. Moreover, most Arkansans seem genuinely proud of Fulbright's prominence and, they assume, power...