Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Walk. By contrast, Jackie's three days in Thailand were quiet and reasonably private, partly because, afflicted with a touch of the malaise that tourists frequently experience in Asia, she canceled several public appearances. She did manage some serious shopping, buying a 15th century bronze hand of Buddha, two gilt wooden hands (17th century), three porcelain cosmetic jars from the ruined ancient capital of Ayutthaya, and three solid silver bracelets made by Thailand's Meo hill tribesmen...
...four workers is employed by the government, which gives them 44 holidays a year and retirement at full pay as early as 55. Theaters in cosmopolitan Montevideo offer such lively fare as Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy and Strindberg's Miss Julia; in the city's quiet little tearooms, a cup of coffee brings free pastries, potato salad, sausages, octopus, pickled cauliflower and caramel pies. At the pleasant seaside resort of Punte del Este, thousands of high-living tourists spread money around like so many beach blankets. In fact, Uruguay's main problem is that...
...gambling with her voice's future by singing taxing roles at such an early age. Still, such all-or-nothing assaults on the heights are in the spirit of Callas' own career, and the older soprano may have been acknowledging the kinship when she tried to quiet the boos at Carnegie Hall by shouting the Greek word for "good": "Kalla! Kalla! Kalla...
...befits a tiny country in the Ardennes hills between France and Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has long been a hospitable tourist center of quiet pastoral charms. Recently the hospitality has been extended to a special group of visitors-executives of U.S. and European blue-chip companies who stay just long enough to enjoy a meal at Au Gourmet and to attend the annual meeting of their new holding companies. Domiciled for the record in a local bank or lawyer's office, such holding companies have hit the European money market for more than $500 million in long...
Douse That Light! Next day was the only quiet one in Loc Ninh's bloody week. The Vietnamese irregulars dug huge pits for the Viet Cong dead, washed their clothes in the French Club's swimming pool and helped themselves to the wine cellar. Because the Viet Cong had returned each night to occupy the town itself for a few hours, the villagers were evacuating it by the thousands. To try to build up their morale, the 1st Division sent in medics and armored personnel carriers, and the division band went oompahing through the streets in full battle...