Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wolfe describes the area around Shawn's own offices as a Whisper Zone: "a kind of horsehair-stuffing atmosphere of old carpeting, framed New Yorker covers, quiet cubicles and happy-shabby, baked-apple gentility." Within 40 feet of Shawn's office, says Wolfe, everyone whispers in imitation of their sibilant boss. "He always seems to have on about 20 layers of clothes, about three button-up sweaters, four vests, a couple of shirts, two ties, it looks that way, a dark shapeless suit over the whole ensemble, and white cotton socks...
...President read the message. His face tightened, and he stumbled slightly over his words as he continued the toast. Even as he talked, Johnson handed the note to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, seated near him. Rusk read it and quickly left the room. Later the President, in quiet fury, circulated word of the bombing among his guests...
...Prince Khaled ibn Abdul Aziz, 55, as his eventual successor. The passed-over prince is a cheerful bon vivant, who himself suggested that Khaled be named the royal heir-and was reportedly rewarded with more than $1,000,000 for his unselfishness. Khaled, who is known as "the quiet one," has assisted Feisal at international conferences, currently is Saudi Arabia's Deputy Premier. A painfully shy, hardworking administrator, he is an expert hunter, relaxes by competing in camel-milk-drinking contests with Arabian desert tribes...
They said they were minding their own business, just a bunch of guys named Roger Maris, 30, Clete Boyer, 28, Joe DiMaggio and Hal Reniff having a quiet snort in a dark bar after a hard day at the Yankees' Fort Lauderdale training camp. But Male Model Jerome Modzelewski, at the next table, says somebody tossed a wild pitch at his girl. Maris says Jerome kept damning the four Yankees. Anyhow, Modzelewski wound up with a badly cut lip, eleven stitches and the distinct impression that Maris was going for 61. He charged Roger and Clete with assault...
...vetoes, and under the Uniting for Peace formula, the Assembly moved to send troops to patrol the Gaza Strip. The U.N. force thrust an impassive shoulder between Egyptian and Israeli combatants. Its continued presence may not have resolved Arab-Israeli differences (what could?), but today, the Gaza Strip is quiet...