Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...briefcases until midnight. Sunday is the only day he reserves for his family: Wife Jane, Daughter Constance, 17, and Son Mike, 14. Freeman's hard-driving pace has brought him an ulcer and a spastic colon, and he sips milk and buttermilk at his desk to quiet his innards. Occasionally a spasm comes upon him, and he has to lie down on a couch in his office, rigid as a rake handle...
...King and the President got to know and like each other. Hassan even canceled a scheduled visit to the Naval Academy at Annapolis in order to have additional talks with Kennedy. Their conversation ranged over many world problems, from Middle East tensions to Cuba, to NATO. There was also quiet affirmation of decisions already taken, including the U.S. pledge to evacuate three big SAC airfields and a naval base in Morocco by year's end, and to continue an unspecified amount of financial aid to Hassan's kingdom (last year's total: $30 million...
...side by side with bundled gifts of rank-smelling tiger and leopard skins. Over 28,146-ft. Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain and Sikkim's "protecting deity," hung a blue haze. It was an "auspicious sign," said Gangtok astrologers, for the wedding of a quiet, blue-eyed New York girl, Hope Cooke, 22, and Gyalsay Rimpoche Maha-rajkumar Palden Thondup Namgyal, 39, crown prince of the Indian protectorate of Sikkim, a tiny territory the size of Delaware, which has 3,000 varieties of rhododendrons, and where, according to local legend, the devils always travel uphill...
...accounts of "my three years trapped among the savage head-hunters." This book is neither; diary-like, it instead relates incidents occurring among the Kurelu tribe over a seven month period. Its purpose is to give a non-technical account of the way these people live, to give with quiet dignity a feeling of what it is like to be a stone...
...unwilling to admit is that the system of oppression under which the black man in this country exists was established by and is maintained through the threat and actuality of physical violence. The means of keeping the black man in "his place" are varied: lynching, shotgun blasts, quiet murders, police brutality, and capital punishment. Every Negro in the South, as John Dollard once wrote, is under a kid of sentence of death. In Monroe, N.C. Robert F. Williams advocated meeting this white system of terror with Negro self-defense. What was the result? Federal intervention in the person...