Word: speechlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern Godless civilization. "The Quickening of St. John the Baptist" likens the members of a cloistered order to the unborn Baptist waiting in his mother's womb for the coming of Christ's mother, Mary, with the announcement of the anticipated birth of God, the Son. The speechless Trappists and Carmelites are "sealed in the dark and waiting to be born;" they are the sentinels that the world must post to hear "the first far drums of Christ...
...dozen new projects. They had signed up to modernize Raglands department store on Texas' famed King Ranch (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947); they had just completed the first part of a face-lifting for Manhattan's Gimbel Brothers (cried Gimbels in full-page ads: "We are speechless"). Their new two-level Greyhound bus (the Scenicruiser) was being road-tested on Michigan roads. For California they were planning a state fair...
Denfeld's outburst startled a few people. Navy Secretary Francis Matthews hurried from the room, speechless. General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tore up his prepared statement and started over again. The Army hastily summoned Chief of Staff General Joe Lawton Collins back from Japan to testify in rebuttal. This week, too, the Air Force would at last have...
...point in mixing his pigments in slavish imitation of natural hues. And in time his heresy became modernist orthodoxy. Though his contemporaries sometimes considered him just a prodigiously talented nut, posterity had, in fact, carried his philosophy of art to a subjective extreme that would have left Delacroix himself speechless with horror...
...Corno, kept her supplied with the essential information for her intrigues and extortions. In the end, deserted and foiled, the half-crazed Signora determined to punish the entire street; she bought up every house and ordered wholesale evictions. But her fury brought on a stroke that left her a speechless idiot, while the Fascists collected the rent on her houses and hunted down young Communists like Ugo to tighten their political stranglehold...