Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silent Spring, Carson...
Fidel Castro is uncharacteristically silent these days. So is little brother Raul. But it is hard to keep them all quiet in Cuba's talky regime. To a correspondent from the London Daily Worker, Minister of Industries Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, who was Castro's one-man braintrust back in the hills, last week gave an interview defiantly proclaiming Cuba's firm intention to go right on trying to export its revolution throughout Latin America. What is more, said Che, "if the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart...
...CRIMSON brings New York a special edition, a Christmas basket as it were, presented in the philanthropic spirit of the Holidays. Tight-lipped and silent, we stood by for five days while the City went without her newspapers. But the moving pleas of many friends (and not a few enemies) have once again--as in 1958--melted the hoary Cambridge frosts. Yes, New York, there is a Santa Claus...
...Before a silent crowd of parents and children, a salesman was selling gyroscopes in a voice like Jere Whiting being the moon. "Hurry now get them right here now's the time to get it while you have the chance we only have a few thousand," he said. No one blinked...
...drops rafts of silent e's, of course, and the four most commonly used words in English (the, of, and, to) economically get by with just one symbol each ( ? , f , , -I,). Logically, too, the new alphabet does away with Shaw's own favorite example of the phonetic madness of the present alphabet, the fact that phonetically "ghoti" spells "fish."* In Shaw-Read, "fish" is clearly J , i and "ghoti" is forever ? o -I « . All this is not likely to compensate new readers for the strange look of the new letters. Because Shaw insisted on discarding all familiar...