Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the National Security Council, seated around the coffin-shaped table in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the President of the U.S. said with quiet anger: "I've gone far enough. I've had enough of this." And so, in response to a murderous series of Communist attacks against U.S. military forces and installations in South Viet Nam, President Lyndon Johnson gave the orders that on three different days last week sent American and Vietnamese warplanes smashing north of the 17th parallel at Red supply dumps, communications systems and guerrilla staging areas...
Study habits at Annamalai are certainly influenced by the living conditions in the dormitories. Quiet and privacy are hard to find in the crowded accomodations and many students will be found trying to concentrate sitting on the verandas of classfoom buildings...
India's top industrialists are normally a tight-lipped group. Forced to steer their organizations through the red tape regulations of a government-dominated economy, they rarely sound off in public, disguise their occasional criticisms as quiet suggestions. Now, angrily and in public, they are issuing a warning to Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's socialism-bent government. Cut taxes or see India's industrial growth halt completely...
There is one danger in proposing new legislation. In the past, especially in 1963-64, Federal officials have used the excuse that civil rights acts were pending in Congress to try to quiet Negro militancy. In the summer of 1963, for example, many Congressmen warned that a Negro March on Washington, would only harm the prospects of the proposed legislation...
Things had just begun to quiet down when William E. Bailey '62, chairman of the Dunster House Committee, decided that he could "wait no longer" for the Council to get moving again. In fact, he decided, the Council would never get moving properly. To dramatize his dissatisfaction, he proposed that Dunster House secede from the Council. A whopping 82 per cent of the House backed him up, and the beginning of the dissolution of the government had begun. In a second referendum, the Dunster students asked that the Council be replaced by an inter-House council, chosen by the Houses...