Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WALK THE LINE (Columbia), sings Johnny Cash, "because you're mine." A country and western star, Cash is also welcome on the folk circuit because of his agreeable dark baritone voice and the quiet conviction he brings to even the most outlandish tales. These seven of his own songs include Give My Love to Rose, the message of a fellow dying on the railroad tracks, and Folsom Prison Blues, intoned by a cad who "shot a man in Reno, just to watch...
Apparently abandoning political ambition, Shishekly emigated to Brazil in 1958, bought a small rice farm near the town of Ceres, and married a second wife, Thérèse, a Frenchwoman who bore him a daughter. Life in Ceres was quiet. Shishekly kept clear of politics, gave only a few reluctant interviews to the press, paid his debts promptly, and was respected by his neighbors, some of whom still called him "President...
Some painful, intimate truths are far easier to confess to a chance friend opportunely met than to the closest member of the family. A couple of drinks, a quiet dinner, brandy and cigars before the inn fire-and imperceptibly, from behind the urbanity and wit emerge the true facts of a marriage in shambles or of a mortal sickness. This is exactly the kind of book that Milanese Journalist Luigi Barzini has written to explain to the U.S. the delights and secret deficiencies of his countrymen's manners and morals...
...port city on the Indian Ocean, Dar es Salaam is a quiet, lazy place with coconut palms and white sandy beaches. It seems an unlikely setting for high-pressure politics and international intrigue. But because of its geographical position as the southern-most independent African capital, it is the logical gateway to the south. Today at least nine exile political parties have headquarters there, representing refugees from South Africa, Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia, Southwest Africa, and the British protectorates of Swaziland and Bechuanaland. Other refugees from as far away as Angola, Rwanda, Mauritius, the Sudan, and the Comorro Islands help fill...
Mornings, they might take off an hour and find a quiet beach, but they are back in the thick of it before the cathedrals close and bistros beckon them on to a glass of Campari, retsina, or vin ordinaire. At some point, of course, they find time to troop into the local American Express, where on a good day, a persevering type can manage to meet a friend, down a Coke, pick up his mail and a girl as well...