Word: silents
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...could readily refute it, point by point, if he wished to do so. When Irving convinced McGraw-Hill in 1971 that Howard Hughes had asked him to help him write his autobiography, the New York City-born freelance writer was clearly counting on the reclusive Hughes to remain silent. Carrying out his elaborate hoax, Irving forged letters from Hughes to himself that persuaded McGraw-Hill to give Irving a $750,000 contract to produce a 230,000-word manuscript. Irving even fabricated a contract in which Hughes agreed that the money should be split between subject and writer...
Swedish stockbrokers were as gloomy last week as characters in a bleak Ingmar Bergman movie. The Stockholm stock exchange was still and silent, idled temporarily by a total breakdown in an electronic system for registering trades. Millions of transactions being processed at the time of the crash were suddenly in limbo. Said Broker Sven Hagströmer: "It's a scandal. You can't get your money, and you can't get your stocks." Nothing so disastrous had happened to the exchange since it shut down during a financial panic in 1932 after Match King Ivar Kreuger...
...hangs silent as Mills declines to swing...
...first it looked as if the Crimson bats, which had been conspicuously silent for the last couple of weeks, had come alive. The Cantabs opened the first game with two singles in the top of the first inning that put Harvard ahead, 1-0. That, however, was the last that was heard from the batwomen for the next four innings, as Bentley pitcher Tracey Mirmina baffled the Crimson batters...
Even though Rubin attempted to adjust her pitching, moving the ball inside and out and throwing some off-speeders, the Chieftains, aided by some more suspect Harvard fielding, continued to amass runs--they scored four runs in the third and another in the fifth before their bats went silent...