Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wild enthusiasm of Reims and Epernay, the champagne capital, more than compensated for the silent workers at Donchery and Rocroi. who stood with hands thrust into blue overall pockets as le grand Charles drove...
...started last Christmas," he says. "I had heard Silent Night thousands of times, and all that happiness made me nauseous. I couldn't stand the avalanche of goodness." Instead of just being sick, Hollis had his thoughts-for-the-day printed up as stickers and advertised them. He got 93 orders. Since then his ads, every other week, have sold about 2,000 sets of sick stickers, with orders coming in from as far away as Brazil...
...Paul's acting is almost as good as his music, before which I stand in silent awe. His melodies are simple, but clever and subtle. In their charm and sophistication, they reminded me of the Kurt Weill of The Threepenny Opera. The pit band is generally equal to the difficulties of the music, but the drummer's conventional beats are very inappropriate. You will be missing the early work of a brilliant musical talent if you miss Babel...
When tuned in on sensitive radio telescopes, the apparently silent universe becomes a hissing, noisy chorus. This discovery led to the science of radio astronomy, which has added to knowledge of the universe through radio telescopes tuned to various frequencies at the radio end of the electromagnetic spectrum. (The Harvard 60-foot radio telescope, for example, listens to 21-centimeter waves, the wavelength of emissions from neutral hydrogen gas. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe...
Perhaps in Bits & Pieces. Both before and after Kennedy's bland statement, steel executives kept warily silent about their intentions. But it was widely believed that the industry would indeed raise prices, perhaps in bits and pieces over a period of time. The steel industry has been feeling better of late. Steel prices have been firming somewhat, and production has been rising for ten straight weeks. It now stands at 77% of capacity, due partly to strong demand from automakers and partly to hedge buying against the possibility of a steel strike this summer...