Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left, the whole business had begun to get a little boring. At week's end, as he flew over the Irish Sea on his way to England, even Seán Ó Cinnéide may have looked forward to a change of pace. There he began quiet talks with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who would surely welcome a chance to get his mind on something other than his own government's troubles...
...handsome Swedish aviator was a familiar figure on the Washington cocktail circuit. As Swedish air attache from 1952 to 1957, he impressed one U.S. Air Force general as "easy and outgoing, an extravert who got along very well." West Pointers found him "spoony"-meaning suave. He played a cool, quiet game of golf at the Army-Navy Club, his balding, white-fringed head bent over his putter as generals and admirals chatted...
...medieval days when political differences were settled with the sword. Throughout the Diet building, the major conservative parties stationed flying squads of young toughs, known ironically as ingaidan (lobbyists), always ready for heckling or fighting. During the postwar years, the U.S. tried to enforce good behavior, but the quiet spell ended with the lifting of the Occupation. Though the ingaidan were gone, Diet members hired heavy-fisted brawlers as "secretaries...
...Peace: "The Vatican breathes the quiet of spiritual places. It does not know the struggle for material interests. Its supreme goal is to seek peace, to create peace...
Tertullian condemned the theater as the "shrine of Venus," and it took the church a millennium to change its judgment . . . There have been those whose socks and buskins were as happily quiet under pews as active on the boards. You, sir, are such...