Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than a year before his quiet coup, Sarit was Thailand's absentee strongman, with an obedient Premier in office and a contented young King Phumiphon staying regally above politics. But Sarit was spending so much time in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. because of his liver-the result of a lifetime of high living-that some of the country's tolerated bad habits had become intolerable. To break up the entrenched corruption and to ward off the increasing appeal of Communism, Sarit decided to take on the premiership in person. He liked to think...
...Premier Constantine Karamanlis do the political talking. When peace came, the 61-year-old soldier returned to Athens for a hero's welcome, promotion to lieutenant general, a lifetime pension of $300 a month, and a well-earned rest. But it was not long before peace and quiet began to seem to the old soldier to be neglect. The only people who sought him out in his suburban home were Karamanlis' leftist opponents. Since they were well aware that in World War II Grivas led a secret right-wing movement called X, they presumably intended...
...comeliest beauty queens of the Orient, Sirikit Kitiyakara, who is also Queen of Thailand, turned up to open a new hospital in Bangkok, enchanted her subjects with her quiet charm...
...these prosaic parents, drives young Arthur to a basement escape with his contemporaries, where furtive beers foam up into braggadocio, cigarettes mingle with clumsy sex experiments, and draw poker alternates with the raw pathos that gives the picture its fleeting moments of real feeling. It is only in the quiet, anxious scenes of awakening love that Director-Co-Writer Philip Dunne manages to capture the pains and confusion of adolescence and the awful homemade isolation of children from their parents. He is fortunate to have as the children plaintive, pony-tailed Carol Lynley, 17. and blond, handsome 17-year...
...space voyages by way of the "holes"' over the polar regions. But the deadly, invisible streams of the new-found radiation lash through the polar holes, as well as through the whole solar system. Space vehicles making the short run to the moon may be able to pick quiet intervals between the flares, but voyages to Mars or Venus will take several months. During this considerable period a flare is likely to spray the ship and fry its passengers unless they are protected by tons of shielding material...