Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oath, which commands a physician to put his patients before himself, was proving to be an effective strikebreaker. Many doctors were secretly, and a bit shamefacedly, still treating their patients. Doctors in Brussels began telephoning their patients to say they were back on the job -but please keep it quiet. The strikebreakers were not beyond exercising a little lighthearted blackmail: one dental surgeon replaced a broken bridge for a politician on the condition that he would not use his newly recovered power of speech to lobby against the strike. In Ghent's Refuge Ste. Marie, a surgeon asked...
...operation, the Bureau will have to formulate and report generalized knowledge about students' academic experiences to aid advisors and faculty at large. Hopefully, by the modest addition of just one more counselor next year, the Bureau will be able to continue its major role of student assistance in the quiet obscurity it thrives upon...
...selecting the library for one of seven awards in the college library division, the jury commented that its design "creates a quiet, intimate atmosphere appropriate to its use." The architectural layout of the library produces "an interesting spatial arrangement with two high-rise dormitories and a center of interest in this building group," the jury continued. The library was designed by Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbot...
...most violent and do the most damage, are usually caused by sections of the earth's crust slipping past each other along great cracks called faults. Most of the time, a fault is motionless, its two rock faces pressed tightly together, cemented, perhaps, by chemical action. During these quiet periods, tension builds up along the fault. If the fault finally yields at one point, the rupture races along it at several miles per second. Hundreds of miles of rock relax like a broken spring, releasing the gigantic energy that was stored inside them. Most of the energy turns into...
...Frank Yerby romance, such a situation would be accompanied by offstage thunder and lightning. In Novelist Grau's story it makes quiet sense. So does the plot development-melodramatic only in synopsis. Abigail's husband goes into segregationist politics. Grandfather's open secret does not bother the voters-until an opponent discovers that he had not just taken his Negro girl for a mistress; he had married her. As outraged as any of his supporters at this breach in the code, Abigail's husband does what he has to do: he leaves her, abandons his campaign...