Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey did just that, and often eloquently, for 31 hours. "This bill is long overdue," he said. "Moderate as it is, it ensures a great departure from the misery and bitterness that is the lot of so many Americans. This misery has found remarkably quiet methods of expression up to the present...
With the memoirs out of the way, MacArthur resumed his quiet, circumscribed routine. At 84, he was still a fine, bayonet-straight specimen of a soldier. Then, early in March, doctors at Washington's Walter Reed Hospital operated on him and removed his gall bladder. He appeared to progress fairly well after that, but soon he began to fail. For four weeks he fought tenaciously to live. Doctors performed two more major operations. It seemed that no ordinary man could withstand such punishment, but incredibly, MacArthur clung to life. Then at last he let go, drifted into a coma...
...brief and unsuccessful venture into Texas congressional politics in 1951, Jenkins has devoted his adult life to serving Johnson. He is among the President's most trusted aides, functions as a sort of chief of staff, handling personnel, answering mail, and making minor decisions, all with quiet, unflappable dedication. Jenkins is a convert to Catholicism, has six children, including-like Bobby Baker-a son named Lyndon...
...Grant Sharp Jr., 57, new U.S. Commander in Chief, Pacific (CINCPAC), succeeds retiring Admiral Harry Donald Felt (TIME cover, Jan. 6, 1961) as chief of the largest military command in the world, spanning 85 million square miles and including the hot war in South Viet Nam. In midshipman days, quiet-spoken Admiral Sharp was tagged with the nickname Ole and he still carries it-along with a reputation as "the old-shoe admiral." But, says one fellow officer, "he has a voluminous memory, a mind like a sponge" and, when provoked, "can really explode." His specialty: providing clear, precise answers...
...this transfigured world, there is delight as well as drama. On a quiet evening, "a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over mountains," a common citizen might see a door across the way fly open, "and out comes Mrs. Babcock without any clothes on, pursued by her naked husband. Over the terrace they go and in at the kitchen door, as passionate and handsome a nymph and satyr as you will find on any wall in Venice...