Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northern. His performance in Greenwood was enough to make Negroes there wish he had stayed in Chicago. The uninhibited jeers and gibes he aimed at the cops and other whites ("You're nothing but a bunch of dirty dogs!") were noisily and embarrassingly out of key with the quiet, deliberately passive tone of the student leaders...
Wining & Dining. Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, however, were less than enthusiastic about the federation scheme. Borneo leaders resented being invited to join merely as a political and racial accommodation, desired instead some sort of independence of their own. Then Britain began putting quiet pressure on the three territorial governments, tried to persuade them that union in Malaysia offered them far more economic and political power than they could ever achieve by themselves...
Kennedy stressed his efforts in behalf of the Administration's Youth Conservation Bill. He termed his campaign to bring industry to Massachusetts a "quiet approach" that has been "initially successful...
Pitchers & Bananas. The original show had been born out of the not-so-quiet desperation of a group of U.S. painters who felt that their work was not getting nearly the attention it deserved. The art establishment in those days was run by the National Academy of Design, whose tastes ran to the sentimental, the anecdotal, and the academic. Though Stieglitz had exhibited such men as Matisse, Picasso and John Marin in his Manhattan gallery, the critics' verdict on his shows ranged from a patronizing "bewildering" to a savage "subterhuman hideousness." The most vital American painters were a group...
Seen through the finest optical telescopes, the five nondescript points in the sky looked like ordinary stars. To radio astronomers though, they sounded uncommonly noisy. For some strange reason they were all exceptionally powerful radio transmitters-electronic extroverts among the quiet billions of other stars that keep almost perfect radio silence...