Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word. After almost 24 hours and some browbeating, he was released and placed aboard a British vessel, but not without a special farewell gesture. Guards in Cuban-style uniforms and beards drove Smith through the countryside to a cemetery and remarked ominously, "We merely wished to show you how quiet it is here...
...uneasy quiet settled over East Africa, eyes turned back to the tiny island 22½ miles off the coast where the region's troubles had all begun two weeks ago. Though there appeared to be no active, political connection between the mainland mutinies and Zanzibar's new leftist regime, it seemed that the island violence had flashed like chain lightning across the Zanzibar Channel. "It's like prison riots," said an experienced U.S. official. "When one explodes, the others begin...
Would the shock waves of East African revolt move inland to plague the wobbly governments of other territories? One vulnerable region was Northern Rhodesia, which is due to get its independence by year's end. But all was quiet last week as thousands of African voters flocked to the polling booths to elect Northern Rhodesia's first Prime Minister...
...QUIET ENEMY, by Cecil Dawkins. Seven excellent stories about the hill people who live in the Appalachians-a continually distressed area of the South...
Publicly and dramatically, the change is evident in Spectator Sex-what may be seen and read. Thirty-five years ago, Elmer Gantry and All Quiet on the Western Front were banned in Boston; today Supreme Court decisions have had the net effect of allowing everything to be published except "hardcore pornography." It is hard to remember that as recently as 1948, in The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer felt compelled to reduce his favorite four letters to three ("fug"), or that there was ever any fuss about poor old Lady Chatterley's Lover and his worshipful deification...