Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result attested to a quiet change in the minds of many white Americans. Though 52% of the eligible voters in Miss Jordan's district are Negroes, she amassed 64.8% of the total vote-winning 30% to 50% of the ballots in white precincts, and losing decisively in only one. Conducting a similarly restrained campaign for a house seat in a 47% Negro district, Banker Graves compiled 50.3% of the vote, polling 25% to 40% of the total in non-Negro precincts. Since neither faces a Republican opponent in November, their primary victories-the first that Southern Negroes have...
...difficult to keep informed of what is going on, not only in the whole School, but in their own programs as well. Even the School's informal afternoon teas now draw about 200 students and faculty members each day to the plush Eliot-Lyman Room, and have grown from quiet gatherings with important topics of conversation to something resembling a theatre intermission. A sense of isolation exists, and it has been felt by faculty and students alike, but it has been the students who feel they have suffered most, and who, in a sense, think of themselves as the forgotten...
...traditionalists, led by a sixth year Latin student who, complete with toga and laurel wreath, orated from the steps of Widener on the virtues of the classics. The crowd decided to vent their indignation on President Pusey, who first merely wondered, "Why can't I ever have a quiet evening at home," and then tried to justify the Latin-to-English switch in verse (borrowed from the Bryn Mawr alumnae bulletin...
...moments everyone was herded back inside Weld. But after some freshmen had exploded large firecrackers and hurled sparklers from their dorms did an uneasy quiet fall over the yard, a little past...
...short, poor Faulkner. The quiet man who rarely ventured from his estate in Oxford, Mississippi never considered that these lesser works might one day appear within one volume. If this book is ever reissued, hopefully it will be in hideable proportions