Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dynasty of the Imam and installed a "republic" that has ever since been propped up by 20,000 Egyptian troops sent in by Gamal Abdel Nasser. In two bloody days' work last month, Iraqi army officers deposed and killed psychotic Dictator Abdul Karim Kassem. Last week, on a quiet, grey Friday morning, the infection reached Syria...
...Progressive Conservative Party has lost most of its political force in Quebec, where Prime Minister Diefenbaker has alienated many one-time friends. When support biculturalism, Diefenbaker remained abnormally quiet. An amendment calling for increased bilingualism in the civil service and the armed forces, and a special conference on the bicultural aspects of Confederation were adopted only on the second vote, and then by a narrow margin. Quebec delegates left the conversion with bitter memories. The Progressive Conservatives will leave Quebec on April 8 with considerably more than bitter memories and few seats...
This self-consciousness is usually of an assured quiet, sort. They define the Radcliffe years as an arrow pointing toward them, with everything else fading into a grayish blur. What do they like best here? The privacy, the independence, the challenge, or some particular experience of the past, they answer softly...
Gung-Ho. Pickering nourishes no such sentimental attachment to the past. Faced with the touchy problem of whether JPL could build a 447-lb. Mariner, he dug into his work with the quiet devotion that is much more characteristic of him than his loud Explorer forays into Washington officialdom. He held endless meetings, consulted everybody worth a hearing. One scientist who heard that a pet instrument would have to be abandoned on the newer, smaller satellite got so emotional that he was almost fired to keep the peace. Pickering never lost his composure. "I had to establish," he says...
...innumerable false suspenses, or alternatively describing over and over what has been going on. When these devices begin to wear thin, Babe returns to the stage a crew of tedious mystics who repeat each other's lines after the familiar pattern of the Western--you know: "It's quiet out here tonight." "Yeah, too quiet...