Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When all are gathered, they will number 535. Asked to name the most important, any New Frontiersman would unhesitatingly cite a name that most Americans know only vaguely: Wilbur Daigh Mills, 53, a quiet, cautious Congressman from a backwoods town in Arkansas...
Belgian Cement Worker Albert Verbrugghe was driving his wife and another woman down a quiet street in the copper town of Jadotville one day last week, when he suddenly heard the clatter of gunfire. Pulling the triggers for no apparent reason were nervous Indian troops of the advancing United Nations force. Verbrugghe slammed his little Volkswagen to a halt. His wife was already dead, the other woman dying. With an anguished scream. Verbrugghe stumbled out, blood streaming from a wound under his eye. "My wife is killed," he cried...
...great things about a newspaper, especially on Sunday, is that you can split the thing up and let everybody in the family settle into a quiet trance with the section he likes best. The television makes us all feel a little obsolescent once in a while, but it stuns the mind. It makes you listen to all the news you don't want to hear in order to get around to the news you do want to hear. You can't split up Chet Huntley or throw away part of Dave Brinkley...
Behind Park will be Colonel Kim Chong Pil, head of the powerful Central Intelligence Agency, the quiet Korean who is even more powerful than Park. Together, the two have gagged the newspapers, and got rid of thousands of political enemies by forbidding them to participate in public life. Yet of 40,000 political prisoners locked up in the first months of the military coup, a mere 700 remain in jail...
...nights of important debuts, nervous musicians often whisper backstage prayers that the critics, somehow, will fall deaf by curtain time. Last week the critics fell mute instead. New York's newspaper strike (see PRESS) left them effectively silenced, but to the artists who made their debuts, the quiet from critics' row seemed even gloomier than the usual whisper of mighty pencils...