Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position democracy's defenders, the Christian Democrats, are themselves riven by conflicting philosophies, contradictory aims and quarreling personalities. For six months they have hardly governed, and merely held on to power by a melancholy juggling of parliamentary numbers. Order, purpose and initiative trickled out of government like sand whispering through the neck of an hourglass. Last week the whisper grew to a crash. Premier Giuseppe Pella and his government resigned; Italy was left leaderless...
Among technology's dubious gifts to the 20th century is an ever-growing array of devices for snooping: wiretapping refinements, tiny movie cameras, camera film that takes pictures in the dark, microphones so sensitive that they can pick up a whisper through a masonry wall, tape recorders so compact that they will fit into a coat pocket. Long before 1984, the state of affairs depicted by Novelist George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four will be a technological possibility: "You had to live ... in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard . . . every movement scrutinized...
...scrawls her column in longhand that only her secretary can read, usually rewrites her This Week column five or six times. Clem speaks in a hoarse whisper as a result of an operation in which part of her larynx and vocal cords were removed 20 years ago (it took her a year to learn to talk again). In her summer home in Redding. Conn., she likes to cook in the open fireplace over the coals. "I think I cook a nice meal," she says modestly, prefers simple curries, baked beans and brown bread, spaghetti. One night a week...
...will to write; then a muscular disorder made it physically impossible. He destroyed most of what he had written of the play cycle. His dark brown eyes rested in a pathetically drawn face, his big frame grew skeletal, his voice, out of control, now boomed, now croaked in a whisper. He was in and out of hospitals. The few people who met him called him gentle and immensely patient. When he died last week at 65, he left at least three plays in manuscript, including the reportedly autobiographical Long Day's Journey Into Night, which, by the terms...
...shock when they discover that the cost of distributing goods in the U.S. is considerably higher than in Europe. And because the American market is so big and active, the seller must make more noise with ads to be heard at all. Many foreign producers are reluctant even to whisper...