Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fearful that the Kremlin might take offense if Warsaw crowds treated Nixon too much more warmly than they recently treated Khrushchev (TIME, July 27 et seq.), Poland's Communist government had carefully kept quiet the time and place of the Vice President's arrival, and the Warsaw press said nothing about the route his party would follow into Warsaw. As further insurance, Polish Communists decreed that only 500 people would be allowed onto Babice Airport to meet...
Aziz al Haj, editorial writer for Baghdad's pro-Communist Ittihad al Shaab, protested that his paper had sought only to serve the country by exposing plots against it. Kassem brusquely cut him off. "Be quiet!" he snapped. "Every paper claims to be the only sincere one. Sons of the people are all one force. I follow the whole, not a certain party. Any party is a minority, and let there be no mistake: the people can crush the anarchists...
...Live." The wildest attempt to shoot down the bill came from Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters and their lobbyist, Sid Zagri (TIME, July 27), but the quiet power play came from none other than A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany himself. Making a personal trip to Speaker Sam Rayburn's office last fortnight, cigar-chomping George Meany growled out the facts of life as he saw them. Labor, longtime friend of the Democrats, could not live with the bill as it was being written, he warned. "We can't live with the hot-cargo clause...
...living architects, apparently kept this point well in mind at Tokyo. He braked himself to produce a squared-off, surprisingly unelaborate structure. The entrance leads straight through to a large central gallery, from which smaller galleries radiate up and out. Everywhere, the aim is for a calm, quiet, noble air in the display spaces...
...longtime (1918-41) Sing Sing Prison guard and principal keeper (1926-41), who ruled his charges with a celebrated iron fist, once nipped a revolt by a right to the jaw of the ringleader that knocked him, legend says, halfway across the prison courtyard, kept Sing Sing quiet as a convent during the turbulent gangbuster era between world wars while prisons elsewhere often ran amuck; of a stroke; in North Tarrytown...