Word: speechlessly
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...spoke for one hour while Senators listened stony-faced, gripping the arms of their chairs. Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall, shaking, almost speechless, managed to say: "If any man in public life is more above censure than General George Marshall, I do not know of him. I wish I had the vocabulary to answer the statement that the life of George Marshall...
...glad cries with which you welcome and encourage a third world war is amazing. Hurrah, your format is changed, your reporters and photographers will risk their lives to get Americans to fever pitch for war. According to you, we acted "quickly and well." One is speechless before your God-given insight...
...beating the bushes for people with strange jobs and enough gabbiness to heighten Marx's verbal asides. He is often topped, as he was when he asked an elderly woman what people were wearing when she was a baby. Her answer: "Diapers." And he was almost speechless for once when a burlesque-show employee identified a stripteaser as "an anatomy award winner...
...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...