Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things have been quiet in Coon Rapids, Iowa, since the clamorous visit of Nikita Khrushchev in September. Matter of fact, Khrushchev's Iowa host, corn-rich Farmer Roswell Garst, allowed last week that he had not even got a bread-and-butter note from his Soviet acquaintance. But Garst was taking the apparent ingratitude with equanimity: "Probably won't hear from him again until he wants something...
...Boston, quiet Bill Russell practiced his weak shooting eye, said nothing, and waited for the big day when the Warriors came to town. Last weekend in the Boston Garden, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain met for their first official contest in the N.B.A...
...using lock and key to exclude them from society. When we used to put a patient in seclusion, he remained as agitated as ever-only the staff was tranquilized." Here, the seclusion room is used only when the patient himself says he wants to go there to be quiet and have a chance to calm down...
From the economic standpoint, Dean Brown cited the expense of hiring chaperones and extra janitors, as well as a secretary to watch daily operation. She also claimed that the theatre's architecture is unsuitable for "quiet study...
Gold Board. Young President Turbeville might have rushed back to Minnesota. A quiet South Carolinian, the son of a chemical salesman, he set out instead to make Northland work. First he expelled more than 40 sluggish students, some of them seniors. He ordered the faculty to crack down on marks, gave every student more work than he could handle. He established stiff entrance exams, rejected applicants below the top half of their high school classes. When stunned alumni asked how freshman-starved Northland could afford it, Salesman Turbeville hit the road...