Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went out and J.F.K. came in, exhausting himself with 70-hour work weeks despite the fact that the White House in group was making all the big decisions-like the Bay of Pigs. After the Cuban invasion, Mann requested and was finally permitted to go off to the relative quiet of the U.S. embassy in Mexico City...
...neighbors are quiet and well-to-do. Next door are the Stanley Woodwards-he was State Department Chief of Protocol and Ambassador to Canada under Harry Truman. New Jersey's Republican Representative Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. is across the street in the old Robert Todd Lincoln house. Republican Senator Kenneth B. Keating of New York is around the corner. The purchase gives Jackie three homes, the others being a house at Hyannis Port and the new, ranch-style home in the ride-to-hounds country around Atoka, Va. On a visit to Atoka last weekend with the children, Jackie formally...
...Europe's diplomatic circuit, already an old hand at affairs of state. Leaving her husband, she returned to the U.S. shortly after the fall of France, immediately joined British Security Coordination (B.S.C.), the Manhattan-based intelligence and counterespionage network that was run by Sir William Stephenson, the famed "Quiet Canadian." He sent Cynthia to Washington, where she took a Georgetown house on O Street and went to work...
...Checker, 22. The future Mrs. Ernest Evans (Chubby's real name; the stage handle was chosen in frank imitation of Fats Domino) met her husband-to-be while he was doing a show in the Philippines last January. "He's different," she says. "He's the quiet type, and I like the way he hums around." Now that was a twist, and it brought a response in kind from Chubby's mom. The lovely Miss Lodders, said she, "is very warm, very nice. Chubby dated quite a few girls, but this is the first time...
...knows the truth about Billy Liar. Escaping to London is a snap, she says. "You just buy a ticket and get on a train-that's all you do." In a bitter climax, laughter gives way to self-knowledge, to quiet defeat. While Liz heads for London alone, Billy saunters back toward the cold but certain comforts of home-and the loyal troops of Ambrosia fall into step behind...