Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your communications cover story [May 14]: the reason I killed myself in January 1970 is because I no longer had privacy in my bathroom, man's last haven for quiet contemplation and omphaloskepsis. When it became mandatory to wear radio receiving sets so that people who had no idea where I was could call me, I could always unbolt the thing from my left ear. But when, in 1968, Congress passed the Numbskull Act requiring all male adults to have these receivers surgically implanted, brother, that did it! Big Brother, that...
...came into our room to try out his opening lines on a British audience. One of these remains in my mind very clearly: "I have just come in from Piccadilly Circus tube station. There is a heavy raid in progress. But in the station itself, things appear to be quiet with the exception of a small man in a dirty overcoat who is very busy. He has a stick of chalk in his hand and is dutifully inscribing on the wall 'Home Rule for Wales.' That, in its way, conveys the spirit of London in the middle...
...amendment to the state constitution (which was approved easily) was designed to cancel all laws against discrimination in real estate transactions. Many Republican candidates enlisted in the lavishly-financed campaign in favor of 14, with its mixture of private enterprise rhetoric and barely disguised racism. Others, like Murphy, kept quiet and let the voters guess at their personal sentiments...
...confused or had been told to post them in any order they saw fit. Well aware of the outside world's careful scrutiny, the Kremlin seems determined to give nothing away in what is no doubt a genuine balancing act, for the time being at least, among the quiet men who have followed the ebullient Nikita...
...York City with so few words. Protectively accompanied by diplomats and her lady in waiting, Denmark's tall (5 ft. 8 in.) Princess Benedikte, 21, whirled through a hectic six-day goodwill visit -her first trip to the U.S. At a ball celebrating Danish Week, she danced a quiet fox trot with her honor guard of four West Point cadets, and looked unflustered when she turned out to be taller than her official escort, Carl Michaelsen, president of the Danish American Society, Inc. Through it all she smoked filter-tip cigarettes, showed off a high-fashion wardrobe that...