Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doom Club. Danang itself is ominously quiet. The white sand beaches on Tourane Bay are deserted; pedicabs and taxis have given way to Jeeps and deuce-and-a-half trucks. Danang's populace doesn't bother to look up at the Skyraiders and jets bellowing off the runways en route to another strike north. Military men stick to their posts. Bars and brothels go dead at night, leaving girls to play cards and dance with each other; little children with wild eyes pick one another's pockets. Even in the "Doom Club," a hangout for U.S. officers...
Moreau's face proves that beauty need not be fair. In every Moreau film, the unforgettable moment is when the camera draws in close and fixes its attention squarely upon her. It is then that her beauty is evident-as in the sight of her quiet ecstasy in The Lovers, or the crucial, almost unbearable sequence in Le Dialogue des Carmélites when tears spill down from her staring eyes. Jules and Jim showed her in librarian's glasses, wearing a charcoal mustache, smoking an Italian cigar -yet it was still perfectly conceivable that the boys fell...
When the Board of Trade announced on February 12 that Britain's trade deficit widened again in January, despite the 15% surcharge, the news was received with a kind of quiet desperation. The pound weakened. Government officials rushed to reassure the country. Economic experts predicted the government's moment of truth would arrive by the end of the summer. The currency crisis is only one symptom of a more serious malady. It reflects the restrictive practices of British labour and the resistance of British businessmen to innovation; it dramatizes the backwardness of British industry...
Smokies to Sea. Wachovia and the Southeast have prospered together. The bank was founded in 1879 by descendants of the Moravian settlers, who named the Upper Piedmont section of the state Wachau after a pretty valley in Austria. Wachovia was a relatively quiet little bank until about ten years ago. Then, convinced that the South was headed for tremendous growth, its management speeded up the bank's expansion and made an all-out bid for the business of big corporations...
...Take a guy like Larry O'Brien. He's been in the middle of a quiet revolution in congressional relations. Given the information he has, you could produce something genuinely valuable...