Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jacqueline Kennedy took the native intelligence, adventurous courage and quiet bravery of the pioneer women of the old frontier and gave these attributes an elegant refinement. I nominate Mrs. Kennedy "Woman of the Year...
Among the Brethren, Mueller is famed equally for his quiet jokes and his stem-winding sermons. But he is no innovator, and one council member predicted that "there will certainly be no revolutionary changes during his presidency." Mueller says that he is moved by the new "fraternal spirit" within Roman Catholicism, but that there is a long way to go before serious discussions of a broader Christian unity are possible. "Basically, this is God's business," he said. "We must endeavor to determine his will and fulfill it. But I do believe in miracles...
...doing things than Johnson is to drop his drawl. He will be meticulous, even somewhat plodding when necessary. "It can be a tedious job no matter how glamorous it looks," he says. "We don't deal with great issues as drama. We deal with them by quiet, persistent, repetitive effort. If we can make a quiet contribution to the settlement of a dispute, O.K. And if we don't get any credit...
...change in pace of the council reflects the change in Roman Catholic leadership that took place between sessions. Vatican II was first summoned by that quiet revolutionary, Pope John XXIII, who intuitively felt the need for an aggiornamento-a modernization of the church. His instinct was dramatically proved right during the first session, when a majority of the prelates rejected the standpat schemata on liturgy, the sources of revelation and the nature of the church proposed by the conservative Roman Curia...
Knit Fireworks. In his private person, Simon is shy, quiet and inconspicuous. But Walter Mitty would be jealous. He is the man who listens unnoticed as the professional party clowns laugh it up, then-in a momentary gap in the uproar-drops a quiet line that tops them all. "Doc" Simon, as he has been called since he used to compete with physicians in their attempts to diagnose family sicknesses, has been writing jokes since he was in his teens. His father was a dress salesman, and the Simons lived in an apartment in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan...