Word: soundless
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...night the invasion coast drops into sullen, soundless darkness. Below the earth, behind great blackout curtains, men still work with concrete and steel. But the hard-eyed German gunners behind the barbed wire on the beaches, the spectacled technicians at the radio detectors on the cliffs, no longer feel the spirit of Todt, the fortress builder. At night-almost every night-there is fighting to be done, and any night may bring the first crashing thrust of invasion. As soldiers always do, men on the late watches talk of home, of furloughs and women, of comrades on other fields...
...little cottage was silent. Neighbor Conkrite, getting no answer to his knocking, finally pushed open the door and walked in. Cats brushed against his legs, ran like shadows through the dilapidated room, crouched and stared at him, with soundless mews. Crumpled on a bed lay their mistress, the old woman known around South Kent, Conn, as Mrs. Florence Chandler, the "cat woman." She was dead...
...models of Disney characters used by Disney draughtsmen as models for their drawings; 4) music from Fantasia, played softly on a public-address system through the museum's ventilating ducts; 5) (most popular) a 4-by-5 screen on which visitors, seated on wooden benches, could see a soundless 15-minute reel of excerpts from everything from Steamboat Willie to Pinocchio...
...dead against New Deal methods, he could see some good in New Deal objectives. To Boss Pew and associated fat cats who run the G. O. P. in Pennsylvania, this sounded alarmingly like rank liberalism. So they bundled Dave Reed back on to his shelf, chose safe and soundless Jay Cooke IV to go up against Democratic Senator Joe Guffey next November...
Steps, steps, steps; one after another, straight, regular, passive, soundless. He reached the entry, climbed the stairs slowly. Once he stopped and looked around. No one was there...