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silence and followed
What followed the outburst brought almost breathless silence as Miss Sutherland revealed her mastery of a voice probably unique among sopranos today.
Over the course of the next couple of hours, the marine hears assorted garbled radio messages, gunfire, and screams, followed by silence: " Seems your buddies are dead.
Each dot or dash is followed by a short silence, equal to the dot duration.
Singer Diana Ross performed the national anthem, which followed a moment of silence in support of the Polish trade union Solidarity ; following the crackdown by the communist government of Poland on the pro-democracy union.
Finally, the tour ended with a symbolic sculptural tree and the reappearance of the family in the fallout shelter and the sound of a ticking clock, a brief silence, an extract from President Kennedy's Inaugural Address, followed by a further " symphony of music and color.
* CPG 1-17 recommends that a monthly test be conducted, consisting of the steady Attention signal for no more than one minute, one minute of silence, followed by the Attack signal for no more than one minute.
The Service of Remembrance in many Commonwealth countries generally includes the sounding of the " Last Post ", followed by the period of silence, followed by the sounding of " The Rouse " ( often mistakenly referred to as " Reveille "), and finished by a recitation of the " Ode of Remembrance ".
Commemoration ceremonies are usually held on the following Sunday, at which the " Last Post " is played by a bugler followed by the observation of a two-minute silence.
Two minutes of silence are observed at 8: 00 p. m. Remembrance Day is followed by Liberation Day on 5 May.
After several years of silence, in 1920 he produced a tribute to his friend Debussy in the form of La plainte, au loin, du faune ... for piano, which was followed by Amours, a setting of a sonnet by Pierre de Ronsard, for voice and piano, published in 1924 to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the poet's birth.
Despite extensive police resources channelled towards their capture, a wall of silence created by a mixture of fear and respect in the Shankill community, provided few leads that could be followed.
The strict codes of loyalty and silence, and the hard retributions that followed violations, were hallmarks of U. S. gangster rings, Mafia, the Unione Corse, the Chinese Tongs / Triads and the Japanese Yakuza / Black Dragon Society.
During the silence which followed, Abram Hixon said to father, " Why not call it Portland?
However, the composer followed them with six years of silence, in which the only work he produced was a new version of Dardanus ( 1744 ).
This was followed by a minute silence, which, despite previous concerns, was respected by all the fans.
Powerful, rhythmic chords, forte, each time followed by nearly two bars of silence, then a soft reply.
One notable broadcast was their worldwide period of silence for John Lennon, followed by " Remember " for the recently slain singer.
An eruption of indignation followed and as soon as silence had been restored, Mitchel delivered his opinion.
The message transmitted was for a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, issued by the National Weather Service in Pendleton, but the transmission broadcast instead was a long period of silence, followed by a few words in Spanish.
When the tone stops, the trunk will go off-hook and on-hook ( known as a supervision flash ), making a " Ka-Cheep " noise, followed by silence.
This silence is marked by the firing of a field gun on Horse Guards Parade to begin and end the silence, followed by Royal Marines buglers sounding Last Post.
* The top of the hour is marked with a one second-long beep, followed by nine seconds of silence.

silence and walked
He entered the house in silence, walked into Alfred's room, and closed the door behind him.
The crowd fell into stunned silence as he walked off.
The lyrics reference Hearst's participation in a San Francisco bank robbery in 1974: " She walked out with empty arms, machine gun in her hand / She is good and she is bad, no one understands / She walked in in silence, never spoke a word / She's got a rich daddy, she's her daddy's girl ".
Some members of the House walked off the House floor during the ensuing silence, citing Jackson's accusations of child molestation and their musical tastes.
On 21 January 2005, during a silence in the Saxon state assembly in Dresden to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz extermination camp, twelve members of the NPD walked out in protest.
Stunned to silence, the girls just walked away, with Charlie Brown smiling after them.
Alluding to an episode in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", where Dupin deduces what his friend is thinking despite their having walked together in silence for a quarter of an hour, Holmes remarks: " That trick of his breaking in on his friend's thoughts with an apropos remark ... is really very showy and superficial ".
One evening while staying at the Carbisdale Castle youth hostel on the Firth of Sutherland he walked up the hill behind the castle and was deeply impressed by the total and absolute silence: no sound of human voices, or bird calls, no mechanical noise, and not even the sound of the wind.
The lyrics reference Hearst's participation in a San Francisco bank robbery in 1974: " She walked out with empty arms, machine gun in her hand / She is good and she is bad, no one understands / She walked in in silence, never spoke a word / She's got a rich daddy, she's her daddy's girl ".

silence and close
The fact that he was not a member was known only to a very small circle of party leaders at the time, and it did not become known to the public until the year 2007, when the silence was finally broken by Erhard's close advisor Horst Wünsche.
Disgusted by the chaotic state of the Press, and antagonized by the Vice-Chancellor George Huddesford, Blackstone subjected the print shop to close scrutiny, but his findings on its confused organization and sly procedures met with only " gloomy and contemptuous silence " from his colleagues, or " at best with a languid indifference.
They are loquacious yet capable of silence ; gregarious yet so close to the earth that single families or even men alone might live and travel for long periods away from other human beings ; proud, yet capable of a gentle self-ridicule.
One putto raises his finger to his lips in a Masonic gesture of silence and secrecy whilst the bust has a close resemblance to the Polish Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska
Cheryl Sutherland, in a fine, close reading of several poems, evokes the volume ’ s core: “ he finds precision satisfying so the task he has taken upon himself is to release the petrified voices of those who have lacked the vocabulary ; he fashions a frieze from their silence ” ( Sutherland, np ).
Intimate communication is both expressed ( e. g. talking ) and implied ( e. g. friends sitting close on a park bench in silence ).
The NPD was upset that a moment of silence was being held for those who died in the Auschwitz camp and that none was being given for those who died during the bombing of Dresden in World War II, with the anniversary of both events falling relatively close to each other.
In the event, Flagstad rose to the occasion and included " Fruhling " ( with, however, several downward transpositions ), and the close of " Im Abendrot " was followed by a respectful silence in memory of Strauss.
An election silence is enforced on the day before and the day of the elections, ending at 7: 00 pm when the polling stations close and the exit polls are published.
It was determined that Arafat's nephew and PNA envoy to the UN, Nasser al-Qudwa, was a close enough relative, thus working around Suha Arafat's silence on her husband's illness.
The new government continues to close down newspapers, silence dissenting voices and ban or censor books and websites.
Rivera came up with the name of Yoyo Boing for representing Jughead ; the name " Yoyo " sounded close to " Jughead ," and the " Boing " part was a gimmick Rivera developed for the character: a vocalized " boing " that he constantly repeated to fill in silence gaps during each episode.
However the increasing silence of those close to the Baron excited the suspicion of the police who placed the family under heightened surveillance.
The credits roll in silence, with a close up of Adric's badge, broken up on the floor.
He challenged incumbent U. S. congressman Ben Cardin, who has close ties to the Lobby, to break his silence on Israeli wrongdoing.
A fermata at the close provides a moment of silence before No. 9 begins and signals the end of the first section.
I will continue to be close to you in a deeper way, through silence and prayer, and in the same way I would ask you to be close to me in this last period of my existence.

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