Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police lieutenant, off duty and in civilian clothes, heard the ruckus, flashed his badge, ordered the youngsters to quiet down. He was Thomas Gilligan, 36, a 6-ft., 200-lb. veteran of 16 years on the force and the holder of 19 citations, including several awards for disarming dangerous suspects. According to the police report, the Powell boy went after Gilligan with a knife. Gilligan ordered him to stop, but Powell kept coming. Then, "in defense of himself," Gilligan fired his revolver three times. The third shot went wild-but the first two killed...
...York, and a 19th century sightseer described it as a place of "little velvety islands and silvery rivers, sublimely picturesque in vernal bloom." Established in 1658 by Peter Stuyvesant, Nieuw Haarlem lay in a lush bottomland dotted with farms like "Happy Valley" and "Quiet Vale." At first it was connected to the rest of Manhattan by a single road built with Negro labor along an Indian footpath that is now part of Broadway...
...Duvalier's Foreign Minister accused the Dominican Republic of financing an "invasion" of Haiti by "Haitian and Dominican elements" bent on sabotage and assassination of the "closest collaborators of Haiti's head of state." For days, Haitian exile leaders in the Dominican Republic remained quiet. Then, Father Jean-Baptiste Georges, a Roman Catholic priest who once served as Haiti's Education Minister, and Pierre L. Rigaud, head of Haiti's old liberal National Democratic Union, called a press conference in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo. The exile force, they announced, was part of the Haitian...
...East End Neighborhood House, where 14 pupils sit down at small tables around a large room, the atmosphere is casual but quiet. Each tutor has developed her own teaching methods. At one table a white boy and a Negro girl, with a tutor, play a game of homonyms, thinking up and writing down such words as "knew and new," "won and one," "two and too." At another table a tutor helps a boy with flash cards to increase his word-recognition speed...
Steady Steering. A quiet, gentle executive, Tolley sees himself as "a man with an oil can whose job is to keep all parts of the machine running smoothly." He has done just that, shrewdly acquiring other companies, setting up buying companies in four foreign countries and agents in four others, and steadily expanding Myer's network. He has ignored chances to open specialty stores, steadily steered Myer's toward the volume market. "There's no future in catering to a so-called elite," Tolley says. "Aim at the broad middle section of the population and you automatically...