Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Churchmen were in the vanguard of the demands for reform, except for the Afrikaner Dutch Reformed leaders, who remained silent. Durban's Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley warned bluntly that "Africans are determined to have political participation in their future, and I don't see how white South Africa can face up to it fast enough." The Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Netherlands-born Joost de Blank, announced that he was sending a representative to Geneva to ask the World Council of Churches to expel the South African Dutch Reformed Church unless it takes a stand against Verwoerd...
Truth was that, apart from the organized knots of Reds, the crowds that turned out to see Khrushchev were mostly just curious-ancl often silent. And throughout the tour, Nikita was confronted by the weighty displeasure of France's Catholic hierarchy. Priests were forbidden to receive him in their churches. In Reims the Host was removed from the altar of the cathedral before Khrushchev was shown through-and a purification service was held after he had left. The church even succeeded in spiking one of the anticipated triumphs of the Agitprop men-Nikita's scheduled meeting with Canon...
...Silence played to packed audiences and drew queues at the box office. Its story: the ordeal of a factory hand ostracized by his mates for refusing to join a wildcat strike. As punishment, his fellow union members "sent him to Coventry"* and thus condemned him to life in a silent, hostile world...
When a person talks on the telephone, he is silent more than half the time, either listening to the other party, collecting his thoughts, or perhaps just catching his breath. The Long Lines Department of the American Telephone &. Telegraph Co. last week told how it craftily takes advantage of such conversational pauses to double the carrying capacity of its U.S.Britain cable...
...transatlantic cable is a rank of 17 cabinets, containing 10,000 transistors and 106,000 other components. This electronic eavesdropper listens simultaneously to the talk on the cable's 48 channels, sampling each of them 8,000 times per second. When it finds that one of them is silent, another conversation is automatically switched into the gap. When the cable is fully occupied, 96 conversations dodge through the 48 channels, the words deftly avoiding each other. At the far end they are reassembled, good...