Word: soundless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shut door, one can see into the court-wigged heads, writing hands, the judge enthroned, red-robed, heraldic like a king of cards; the back of the doctor's head and neck solid above the parapet; counsel in shadow-play shooting out an arm; lips moving soundless, all silent, sharp, like fish inside a bowl...
Long after midnight, bathers on Honolulu's Waikiki Beach were startled by a brilliant, soundless flash above the horizon to the southwest. The flash faded to reddish clouds that hung luminously in the night sky. Thousands of other Hawaiian residents saw it, and telephone switchboards were swamped with excited calls...
...young. I was proud. I went out on the great intellectual grunion-run, and I was diverted. I wandered through the alley-ways and knocked on brown-wood doors, and was admitted. Once inside, I watched the men speak lines and gesticulate, and somehow failed to understand. Beside a soundless stage my doubt played the part of a fool, incapable, strutting in a stupid pride, mute, dead, responding to a pair of strings attached to twitching thumbs...
Last week the San Andreas Fault system shrugged again. A soundless, polite waver wiggled skyscrapers, floors and desks, then awesomely heaved harder, and adopted a unique up-and-down motion. The bells in St. Patrick's steeple on Mission Street rang all by themselves; at the Top of the Mark, some 15 early customers for cocktails noticed more sway than usual, ordered another drink. A painter high on the Golden Gate Bridge clung tight while the main deck seemed to leap, and the 36½-in. cable "snapped back and forth like a clothesline." Two motorists on Highway...
Although the bass drum is too delicate for noise making, Novick hinted that the Band would not be soundless when it rolled into Ithaca. "Perhaps Cornell will appreciate an early morning serenade this Saturday," he remarked. Last year the Band gave Yale a similar free concert in the dark, but, received little gratitude from students or police...