Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battered, bustling towns of Western Germany, campaign posters and blaring sound trucks shattered summer's sluggish quiet. Next week, in their first free general election since Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933, Germans will choose 400 representatives for the Bundestag (lower house) of the Deutsche Bundesrepublik, the long-awaited Federal Republic of Germany. Chief contestants for power: the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. Their platforms had one vital plank in common: sharp criticism of the Western occupation powers...
...course, [the press treatment] was my fault, too. You try to keep things quiet. The thing is that a movie star is a ridiculous commercial product, and the public tells you what to do. One women's group wrote me that I had once been a perfect example for mothers and now I was a horrible example. They saw me in Joan of Arc and thought I was a saint. I'm not. I'm just a human being...
After three days, many of them were. Both sides had yielded a little; wage talks were begun. A measure of quiet returned to the frantic halls of the haute couture...
Pint-sized José Figueres once described himself as "a literary socialist farmer with a kind of Atlantic Monthly mind." Thrust into politics as President of Costa Rica's ruling junta, he has never been quite able to decide whether to chuck politics for the bookish quiet of his coffee finca (farm), or to stay on in San José to finish the uphill fight for his program of "neo-liberalism."* Last week Pepe Figueres made his choice...
...Black Bart slipped up. Hurrying away from a stage robbery near Sonora in 1883, he dropped a handkerchief bearing the mark of a San Francisco laundry. That was all his pursuers needed to track him down. He turned out to be a 55-year-old man who lived in quiet "retirement" and often ate his lunch at a Kearney Street bakery. His name: Charley Bolton...