Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will march forward to the battery of microphones, blink smilingly into the aurora of flashbulbs, raise his hands in delightful helplessness to quiet the throng-that man had probably not dared to let his thoughts wander so extravagantly last week. But chances were good that he had already felt a tremor of premonition...
...Democratic Party's leader-in-action. Pat Brown, who needs to get himself known outside California, was off on a get-acquainted tour, visiting such elder Democrats as Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman and Harry Truman. Stu Symington was vacationing in Puerto Rico; his strategy has been to keep quiet and let his competitors knock one another off. And Jack Kennedy was campaigning in Alaska-just as he has been campaigning ever since 1956 in a marathon effort to make friends and influence people...
...continued series had made some solid points: ¶ "Many students there don't have the emotional stability, the mental capacity or the desire for academic learning." ¶ "Much of the classroom instruction is a farce, based on a philosophy that aims at 'just keeping them quiet.' " ¶"There is open defiance in the classrooms . . . Teacher morale is low . . . Teachers have been threatened with physical violence by students." ¶Most telling point: "The training in education I was required to take for my New York City teaching license was of little practical value." Allen, a journalism school graduate...
...Bickfords, the Clubs and even the I.A.B. in which to study. While this seems to be ideal, sometimes, sometimes, we find great pleasure in studying in our rooms. We enjoy talking to our room-mates, playing our hi-fi's, and wooing our women with a reasonable amount of quiet. Yes, and there are those tender moments when we wish we could forget about time. We have alarm clocks, wall clocks, wrist watches, even a ship's clock in one lucky room, hunger pangs, and the sun (on those rare days) to remind us of mortality. In addition, Mem Church...
Things are a little bit more quiet these days. Last year, "about four or five students" were attacked by "unknowns." The police are sure, however, that the attackers were not students. "Over the years it about averages itself out to that number," Captain Toohy noted...