Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wore on, sparrows began to drop with exhaustion, unable to fly away even when someone came right up to them to wring their necks. One or two areas in the parks were deliberately left "quiet," and here an army of BB-gunners lay in ambush for the resting sparrow. Some of our British comrades demurred, of course, but the campaign saved many tons of grain for the Peking area...
...build roads and you get a chance to build roads. If you're in communications, you train to communicate and you get a chance to communicate. When you're a rifleman, you train to kill, but . . ." At that point he disgustedly waved a hand toward the quiet hills surrounding Danang...
Grainger was a scholarly, quiet young man who had devoted his adult years to a search for some fulfilling engagement with life. He grew up in Meriden, Conn., joined the Army Air Forces after high school, later studied anthropology and sociology at Yale. He became a troop-ferrying pilot during the Korean War, then tried civilian life again. In 1958 he became a civilian historian for the Air Force, by 1964 had spent two years in South Viet Nam in that capacity...
...become a major adviser to the President, so far has helped to beat down Martin's pressures for tougher, direct controls on capital exports. - Gardner Ackley, 49, the President's chief economist, has yet to achieve the influence that Walter Heller had, but he is a quiet technician with a penchant for anonymity that pleases Johnson. Ackley is a potent force because he has the President's ear, confers with him daily. In a report last week, he told the President that the U.S. economy is expanding faster than at any time in peacetime history, but that...
...snow on the first day of the march fed this quiet emotion. The students trudged through the slush all day Friday and through much of the night feeling brave and somewhat martyred. The march ended Saturday in a solemn procession to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two miles away, where the demonstrators stood silently among the rows of clean white tombstones each representing a death...