Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amorous panic, the Bundeswehr had to ask the Bavarian radio to broadcast an announcement to quiet the aggrieved wives. But one officer felt not so much indignant at East German trickery as he did despairing about West German women: "They didn't stop to think, didn't use their heads, or refuse to believe the letters out of confidence in their husbands. No. They opened them, read them and, instantly, they were convinced." Another officer had a different concern. "I hope," he mused thoughtfully, "that soldiers now won't get the idea of nonchalantly palming off real...
...earnestly for cleaner government-and got nowhere. He has been heckled in the hinterlands and relegated to newspaper back pages. As for the Communist Party candidate, an ancient lawyer named Miguel Mendoza López, few Mexicans even knew where he was last week. The campaign has been historically quiet; only one P.A.N. worker has been killed...
...Quiet Year. Contat and Oosthuizen did not shout the good news to the world. "We pretended to attach no importance to the deposit," says Contat. "We went there casually. We sorted our stones at night. We kept it quiet for a year...
Chin up but mouse-quiet, Elizabeth Taylor Todd made her first public appearance since the death of her rambunctious Mike (TIME, March 31) at a Hollywood press conference called to announce her next screen role: a budding beauty queen in the comedy Busman's Holiday. The producers: plucky Liz and her stepson, Mike Todd Jr., 28, who nervously flaunted some of the old man's damn-the-torpedoes financial bazaz: "Cost? We'll spend as much as it takes...
...quiet, witty Cardinal Agagianian will give up his patriarchate and replace the brimless stovepipe headgear of a patriarch with a simple biretta. But with his special experience in Russian affairs and in the intricate network of relationships in the Communist-infiltrated Middle East, his new position at the helm of the Roman Catholic missionary movement makes him one of the most potent and important men in the Vatican. Last week the Pope conferred a further honor on Cardinal Agagianian-naming him to the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, most important of the Holy See's twelve administrative...