Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil rights speeches droned on-and on and on. The crowd was quiet -and bored. Finally, after two hours, arose the man everyone had been waiting to hear. Martin Luther King was eloquent. "We have walked on meandering highways and rested our bodies on rocky byways," he said. "They told us we wouldn't get here. And there were those who said that we would get here only over their dead bodies, but all the world today knows that we are here and that we are standing before the forces of power in the state of Alabama, saying...
...Viet Cong's annual Hate American Day came last week, but except for a grenade concealed in a loaf of bread that went off in a Saigon suburb, injuring four Americans, the Communists were notably quiet all week...
...Quiet Persuasion. Now California is trying a widely admired device that may solve the problem. The idea began taking shape in the early 1950s when a murder trial was interrupted for four days because the judge vanished on an alcoholic binge. Indignantly, California's now retired Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson spurred a bar-bench study that turned up a surprising number of shocking statistics. Of five judges in one county, four had been absent for as long as a year because of ill health. Despite mounting case loads, other judges thought nothing of taking three-month vacations...
Within seconds, the quiet streets were filled with screams. The horses rode straight into the crowds on both sides of the street. At first the people attempted to hold their ground, but the horses trampled them and battered them against the buildings that lined the street. Lackey tried to stop it, but the Sheriff wouldn't listen...
...evening later in the week, James Forman, executive secretary of SNCC, borrowed Lackey's bullhorn to quiet a restless mob outside the Jackson Street Baptist Church. When he bitterly criticized the police chief for calling in the posse, Lackey, who had been standing on the edge of the crowd, hesitated for a moment and then strode up to Forman...