Word: quiet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viola asked to see counsel in his chambers. During the recess, a group of defendants began to sing "Solidarity Forever" in the courthouse lobby. They were told to be quiet by a court clerk. When Viola returned, he said that all counsel had agreed that assuming that all defendants were in the building, and if a warning was given, all the defendants, if called to testify, would say that they had heard no warning...
...academic year began quietly enough. The then President, Josiah Quincy, was starting a successful drive to secure money for a new building to house the Harvard Library, a project that was sorely needed by the College. The year previous President Andrew Jackson had come to Harvard, and the Corporation with some fuss, had bestowed an honorary degree on him. But this year the Corporation and the Board of Overseers seemed to be living in quiet harmony...
Under normal circumstances, one liberates oneself through quiet thought or tremendous internal crises. Loud acid rock may help some people, it may hinder others...
...forth, and went on outings together. Seventeen-year-old Ethel and 20-year-old Bobby met in 1945, at Mont Tremblant, a Canadian ski resort near Montreal. They liked each other ("He was so handsome!" Ethel recalls) and began to date, until Bobby turned his attentions to Ethel's quiet, bookish sister Pat. This lasted a few months by most accounts, but to Ethel it seemed "two years at least." Finally Pat developed other romantic interests. "Then Mama," says Ethel, referring to herself, "went right to work...
...still lives on the ranch with his wife and two daughters. He does his muscle-toning exercises, thrives on health foods and sleeps on a mattress reinforced with wooden planks. In this atmosphere, the colorful George Archer unfolds. "I love the peace and quiet of the ranch," he says. "The rest of the world is a rat race...