Word: speechless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jealousy Showing. At first the London Sunday Observer (circ. 727,964), which is challenging the Times's Sunday supremacy, was shocked almost speechless. Its initial notice of the Earl's new job ran 17 deadpan words. Then the Observer's wrath spilled over. "Everyone, including the Observer," observed the Observer, "has said that a royal marriage should not preclude Lord Snowdon from doing work. But we believe he has chosen the wrong kind...
...quite speechless!" exclaimed the Most Rev. Arthur C. Lichtenberger, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Like everybody else at the Episcopalians' 60th triennial General Convention in Detroit last week, he was astonished at the speed with which the House of Bishops committed themselves to negotiate toward Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake's proposal for a four-church merger (TIME cover...
Jack Kennedy smilingly informed Mrs. Sprayberry that she was the millionth visitor to the White House this year, an all-time high. While the children stood speechless ("For the first time in their lives," their mother said wryly), the President gave them an autographed photo of himself, observed that the White House is "virtually the only home of a head of state in the world where the people of the country are welcome as visitors." Then the President of the U.S. went back to the more somber work that his office demands...
...seems plausible that Monro did read the Leed Zagat report, but, like so many others, was left speechless by a proposal that would enlarge the Council to 50-75 men, most of whom would have less reason to be on the Council than some of the present members. As for the matter of ignoring Council votes, it seems absurd for the Council to consider itself the last word on something like Sophomore Standing, and to think that a 10-9 head count should end discussion. A committee like the SCCEP is valuable for the points it raises on both sides...
...pulled every level, manipulated every winch and pulley that the Loeb Pleasure Palace houses in its bottomless toy box, in an immense and elaborate hymn to tedium. Peer Gynt fell--like the silly feathered pig which makes an agonizing descent from the rafters (while the actors stand and star, speechless)--with a long long, oh so long thud. (Three long hours...