Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principle of retributive justice-the infliction of present pain in return for past wrongdoing-is bad enough, but in the case of German war crimes [March 5], it may appear more absurd, since the victims are likely to be quiet, older men whose 20-or-more-year-old crimes were not only legal but officially approved when they were committed...
Harm's Way. With the coming of World War II, both duke and duchess made an effort to serve in the ranks. In the quiet months of the "phony" war, Wallis was with the French Red Cross and the duke tried to make himself useful at the British Military Mission at Vincennes. Perhaps to get them both out of harm's way, the duke was then made Governor of the Bahamas...
...Quiet Surrender. The fun was over on Goldie's twelfth day loose. Swooping down to feast on a rabbit planted by his pursuers, he let himself be quietly seized by the legs and returned to his cage, where his mate Regina awaited. "It's good to have him back," said a zoo official. "He is used to people and good square meals." Many a Londoner would take wistful exception. As the Daily Mail put it, Goldie "is the flying symbol of all men lost in urban civilization." Added the Daily Telegraph's editorial page: "Perhaps...
...Venezuela's political climate has been just as profound. Under the mercurial Betancourt, Venezuela erupted with fierce political loyalties and hatreds. It was a country where the governing A.D. party split into feuding factions, where Castroites at one time were killing a policeman a day. In his cool, quiet way, Leoni has put on a damper...
...accepted throughout the church. If it is not, he warns, it could lead "to an extremely serious crisis of confidence in regard to the ecclesiastical office, which will not result in a new schism (no one today would find that worth the trouble), but rather in a further quiet exodus from the church on the part of so many for whom the council has rekindled a new hope. And who should like to take upon himself the responsibility for that...