Word: quietest
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...illusion that St. Louis dwells in time present and time future, but those who live there know differently. The great underlying lethargy, the quiet acceptance of the indifference of urban life, symbolized by a ghetto that has never come close to eruption, all these make St. Louis the quietest city of its size in the world...
...Minister Wilson for his country's sake, and before going to Paris to meet with President Pompidou and some members of the new French government for the same reason, the Prime Minister of Laos spent exactly three weeks on a cure for stomach troubles at one of the quietest and most remote of French spas, Plombieres in the Vosges. This was no dolce vita on the Riviera with parties and yachts...
...those who knew him best. Sherman, his most successful subordinate and closest comrade in arms, once cried out in frustration: "To me he is a mystery, and I believe he is a mystery to himself." Lincoln, when asked what sort of man Grant was, replied: "He's the quietest little fellow you ever saw." Then the President added: "The only evidence you have that he's in any place is that he makes things git! Wherever he is, things move...
...reputation for flinging and swinging that would later win him a $400,000 contract with the pro New York Jets. What bugged Terry was that people were forever comparing him with Joe. Since Terry had deliberately patterned himself after Baltimore's Johnny Unitas, the classiest-and probably the quietest-of pro quarterbacks, he wasn't sure that the other comparison was much of a compliment. So the biggest thrill of his high school career was beating Beaver Falls 41-21-scoring a touchdown in the process on an 82-yd. quarterback sneak. The film of that game, forwarded...
...demilitarized buffer zone between the Communist North and anti-Communist South. The zone is six miles wide. It roughly follows the 17th parallel from the mountainous Laotian border in the west through thickly jungled foothills to the fertile paddies along the coast. For twelve years, it was the quietest place in all of Viet...