Word: voicelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none of us will forget, the tuition was raised $200.00 with the assurance that the H.A.A. yearly deficit would be a principal beneficiary. The student, in return, would receive free admission to athletic competitions, including all home football games. We would suggest a ruse has been perpetrated on the voiceless student: his date's ticket last year was expensive, and this year is outrageous. All this, despite the total abolition of the Federal 20% amusement tax, which means that on a $3.60 ticket, this year the H.A.A. nets nearly 17% more per ticket. Now, not satisfied with a virtual...
There ought to be more Harry J. Grants and Milwaukee Journals around the country [TIME, Feb. 1]. The decline of some of the finest cities in the nation can be directly attributed to newspapers that have slipped to fat and voiceless advertising sheets. Community leadership among them is so weak that even groups of women have-been able to raise louder voices of protest...
Signs of Nervousness. This week inside the Kremlin, in the palatial chamber of the Supreme Soviet, more than 1,200 voiceless legislators of the U.S.S.R. gave the façade of legality to the succession of Malenkov, Beria, Molotov & Co., formally "approved" unanimously the new government and the abolition of more than half the cabinet jobs that existed under Stalin. Some of the deputies had traveled for days from the Asiatic reaches of the U.S.S.R. to reach Moscow. They were ready to head for home after a "legislature" session of 67 minutes...
...been enacted a thousand times before in a thousand other cheap rooms. There was the battered stove with its jets silently exhaling death. There were the whisky bottle and the two unwashed glasses. There was the rumpled bed. There were two figures, a man and a woman-motionless, voiceless, impersonal as dummies...
...emphasized that under her democratic constitution the Indian peasants (about 70 percent of the population) "who have largely remained voiceless in the past, will now be the main influence in the governance of the country...