Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finished, there were some final ceremonies. But to all effective intents and purposes, the day was over. Obeying their leaders' injunctions to leave town as soon as the official ceremonies had ended, the demonstrators made their way back toward their trains, buses, planes and cars. It was a quiet night in Washington-after a day that would never be forgotten...
...G.B.S., by Janet Dunbar. She wasn't gay, witty or pretty-qualities Shaw admired extravagantly in other women-but her quiet nature excellently balanced...
Lions Galore. It was quiet the next day as the Bloody Marys gurgled into glasses at Bailey's Beach; those who were dutiful and those who were able went over to the Casino to watch the tennis. Mrs. Louis Bruguière, Newport's multimillionaire grande dame, was privileged as usual to watch the play from her Rolls-Royce...
...country, the ex-French colony called the "other Congo" to distinguish it from its anarchic ex-Belgian neighbor,* has long seemed quiet and peaceful. But when it came, Youlou's exit had all the revolutionary trimmings, including a storming of the local bastille and a mob outside the palace howling for bread...
...raised more furor. At an executive meeting of the House of Bishops the night before the Congress opened, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. endorsed the Washington civil rights march next week, and passed a resolution urging both laymen and ministers to join it. But there were some quiet dissents from Southern Episcopalians. "The resolution was not the way to accomplish anything," complained Bishop George Gunn of Southern Virginia. "Mass meetings don't help anybody." And at an open session of the Congress, Layman Francis T. West of Martinsville, Va., complained that by using Christianity as a front...