Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this important question. The people of the country are entitled to a definitive statement from the court as to whether force and violence will prevail ... In some places school integration will take time, longer time than in others . . . But you must have a start." Throughout, the chamber sat quiet, the justices immobile, Thurgood Marshall with a slight scowl. Little Rock's Superintendent Virgil Blossom and Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright (on hand as a friend of the court to ask for more time in Little Rock) staring somberly ahead. Lee Rankin continued: "I am confident that...
Syria, after more than six months of Nasser's rule by remote control, found its economy shakier than before. To quiet dissatisfied Syrian businessmen. Nasser allowed Syria a separate budget, vetoed some of his planners' grandiose schemes and ordered a cut in armaments. Unhappy Syrian officers reportedly flung their caps on the table, the traditional gesture of threatening to resign from the army if they do not have their way. More agreeable to Nasser was his three-day meeting with Crown Prince Feisal, Premier of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, who announced that "clouds between the two countries have...
Ford will have new bumpers and fenders, more pronounced fins, round instead of oval tail lights. The grille is new to avoid last year's cheese-grater effect. The new Ford look: "quiet refinement...
...quiet that had settled over France since May-a mood of let-Charles-do-it -had been broken by the protests of the non-Communist left (led by former Premier Pierre Mendès-France) against giving as much power to the President as De Gaulle proposed. The parliamentary committee itself-led by De Gaulle's old friend, 79-year-old Paul Reynaud, and composed entirely of men who had voted De Gaulle to power-voted against De Gaulle's Article 21, which requires any member of the Assembly to resign if made a Cabinet minister. They also...
...question: "Is this applause for me?" Then he remembers: he is really the host. Almost diffidently he pulls up a chair. What Paar calls his "cute little Presbyterian face" beams puckishly. With his voice wavering between a whisper and a sigh, he begins to engage his guests in quiet conversation...