Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowell House remained open and provided coffee, but failed to inform its students. No one was studying there about 3 p.m. Only one student took advantage of the coffee and the quiet in the Winthrop House dining room during the afternoon...
...Saigon last week things were quiet enough on the surface for officials to lift the nightly curfew so that New Year revelers could keep singing and drinking into the wee hours. It seemed hardly appropriate amid the tense political maneuvering taking place behind the scenes...
...daughters try to keep the garage doors closed. They do not like people to see what is going on in there and say, "Look - some nut's building an airplane in his garage." But Jim Shewmaker, 39, a salesman for a chemical firm who lives in a quiet suburb of St. Louis, knows he is no nut. He is a practitioner of one of the fastest-growing hobbies...
Evansville, Ind., is a quiet community of 141,543 on the Ohio River with all sorts of distinction. It is known as the "Home of Pablum" for its Mead Johnson cereal plant, and as the "Barbecue Capital of the U.S." for its hickory trees, which furnish lumber for barbecue fires. It is also the home of Evansville College, a Methodist institution (enrollment: 2,542) that prides itself on the Christian virtues. Like hospitality. When visiting basketball teams arrive, they get a big hello: a tour of the Museum of Arts and Science, a hearty steak dinner in the campus dining...
Although phone cords more than four feet long have always been forbidden, the need for privacy and quiet long ago drove dormitory residents to violate the college rule by asking the phone company to install an additional five feet of wire. This extra length makes it possible to talk in a room, rather than in the hall, frustrating eavesdroppers and pacifying studiers...