Word: speechless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, Ted and Rose Kennedy taped a five-minute television message of thanks to the nation for its condolences. As Patriarch Joseph Kennedy sat speechless beside them in a wheelchair on the lawn of the Hyannisport compound, his youngest and last surviving son said: "It has been the people themselves, with outstretched hands of sympathy and strength, that have most touched the hearts of the members of our family. It is the ones who could give the least who have given the most...
Wakefield deftly shuttles back and forth between the two nations, from the cops to the hippies, from Kiwanians to the ghettos, from an energetic retirement village to a listless Indian reservation. The organization men, rich or poor, high or low, spout a lifeless, insensitive jargon. The unorganized are often speechless. Wakefield could hardly coax any words out of a young Indian man at a Phoenix school. But a white teacher was full of answers, such as "There are ten sociological variables which influence why Indian students become dropouts." Yet, Wakefield found grounds for hope. An Indian militant was distributing cards...
...assault left the First Lady speechless. But not the usually jovial wife of New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes, mother of eleven. "Anybody who is taking pot just because there is a war in Viet Nam is some kind of kook," shot back Mrs. Hughes, whose first husband died in World...
...railway slope and watched the evening, Too beautifully perfect to use, And his three wishes were three stones too sharp to sit on, Too hard to carve. Three frozen idols of a speechless muse...
...President for another reason as well. Last fall, when Johnson requested his help in passing a bill to suspend a 7% investment credit, Mills asked for a favor in return. "I want you to issue a proclamation proclaiming 'Duck Day' in Stuttgart, Arkansas," he drawled. At first speechless, Johnson finally replied incredulously: "You want me to proclaim 'Duck Day'?' "Yes," insisted Mills. "In Stuttgart, Arkansas." The President said he would. The investment credit was suspended, thanks to Mills's help. But somehow, Duck Day in Stuttgart never got proclaimed...