Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mail cartoon showed Admiral Nelson atop his Trafalgar Square roost dressed in top hat, striped trousers and cutaway coat. But Tory anger in Commons was stayed by the realization that Britain could either cooperate or go on cutting off the flow of its lifeblood oil at Suez. Lord Hailsham, quieter in London than he was in Port Said, said: "We will civilianize the whole fleet if necessary...
...prevent privacy, since, according to Stephen Cushman, "you can be alone all you want." Although the walls are thin, the dorm is quiet, and "when there's noise, everyone makes it," Cushman said. Some of the 17 study in Lamont, but most study in the dorm, where it is "quieter than in the Yard," James R. Murphy claims...
...quieter atmosphere, but one which could scarcely be called normal, gradually descended on Budapest. Old women with brooms began sweeping at the doorways of blasted buildings. Rebel work teams searched abandoned vehicles for salvaged weapons. A man with paint pots went from tank to tank painting over the Soviet red star with the Hungarian Republican emblem. A couple of rebel tanks tried to shoot the huge red star off the flagpole of Parliament House, but failed...
Louis XV also dies. After him the deluge-mob shouts, bloodthirsty gutter songs, the Marseillaise. The kettledrummers in the orchestra knock themselves out producing revolutionary thunder. And then the quieter waltzes of Citizen-King Louis Philippe, a brief reprise of glory under Napoleon the Third, World War I -La Madelon, Tipperary, Over There. Three majestic, mournful booms sound from the percussion section; at each one, the lights fade, and at last the palace is plunged once more into darkness...
...agreed to supply arms to Pakistan-the only nation India regards as an enemy. To Nehru, this was bringing the cold war to India's door. He was also discomfited by Red China's seizure of Tibet, just across his northern border, but has been noticeably quieter about that. At the Bandung Conference last year, Nehru led the fight against inclusion of any denunciation of Communist imperialism in the official communiqués. Early this year during the Bulganin-Khrushchev visit to India, he listened unprotestingly while the Russian leaders vilified the U.S. and other Western powers...