Word: voiceless
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Voice officials themselves were almost voiceless with dismay at the committee's action, but after a time they announced bravely that, despite the slash, they would go ahead with Operation Vagabond, a new plan to install powerful radio stations on fast-going freighters. The ships, by being able to move about, would beam a U.S. "campaign of truth" into Communist countries despite Soviet jamming tactics...
...superb foil in the Metropolitan Opera's strapping Wagnerian Soprano, Helen Traubel. From his first baffled exclamation at seeing her in Brünnhilde's armor ("Holy smoke, she's been drafted!"), through a passage from Die Walküre (in which Durante was a voiceless, baffled Siegmund), to his piteous attempts to pin a corsage on her coat of mail, Durante brilliantly played the role of a frustrated longhair...
...earlier, voiceless appearances, Lloyd retains throughout "Movie Crazy" the pristine simplicity of mind, uncomplicated by thought or experience which, with face to match, always puts him on the top by the last reel...
...these organizations, the danger exists that man, though the society at large may be democratic, will become a voiceless cipher. As Erwin Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, put it, 20th Century man faces in his organizations "an internal kind of totalitarianism...
...seen, will never see. Every tyrant is a slave to the inescapable calculus of power: how can I keep them bent to my will? Last week when the Kremlin extended its new conciliatory foreign policy line (see INTERNATIONAL), it was recognizing (as it often had before) that the blindfolded, voiceless 193,000,000 inhabitants of the U.S.S.R. were still a major factor in determining Russia's course...