Word: voicelessly
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...Voiceless Trees. Awakening to the fact that next year's Olympic Games will add another 100,000 agile foreigners to the daily traffic scrimmage, Rome's city hall decreed its biggest postwar street construction program: four huge underpasses, hopefully scheduled for completion by next July. Clearing the way for the underpasses, workmen chopped down hundreds of towering trees along the banks of the Tiber and on the fringes of Rome's biggest park, the Villa Borghese...
...important characteristic of this fermentation," said the Zurich paper, "is that it does not take place among the voiceless masses, but among the party elite-the intellectuals, the progressive workers, the workers of the new caste of technical managers. Communists as well as non-Communists are sick of dragging on their bleak existence...
...while it looked as if Johnson's ability to carry water on both shoulders might win him every honor in sight. He and the party's hard-core liberals, dominant in Texas during the early Roosevelt days, but almost voiceless during Shivers' years as governor, had agreed in advance upon the election of Temple's Byron Skelton, 51, longtime party loyalist, as national committeeman. But when Johnson tried to balance Liberal Skelton by proposing McAllen's conservative Mrs. Lloyd Bentsen Jr. as national committeewoman, he overstepped. The resurgent liberals, pointing to Beryl Bentsen...
...military demand for his resignation, put a pistol to his heart and committed suicide. With parades and mass meetings banned by the police, the day was quiet. The mourners who gathered around the flower-ringed bronze bust of Vargas in Rio's Florian Square seemed subdued and voiceless...
...Voiceless Ones. The men of many colors and faiths met in pride and excitement. "Our people have been the voiceless ones in the world," cried Indonesia's President Soekarno. "But the nations of Asia and Africa are no longer the tools of others and the playthings of forces they cannot control. Look! The peoples of Asia raised their voices, and the world listened...