Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during their first fortnight were a few personal friends of long standing, such as J. Edgar Hoover, and some social monuments like Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 84, Teddy Roosevelt's daughter. Instead of traipsing through Georgetown or the Virginia suburbs on evenings or weekends when the White House was quiet, the Nixons have been dining with each other-something of a novelty for them...
...pastoral quiet of Lynnfield, Mass., was shattered one night last summer by the nerve-jangling throb of a pile driver. The residents' darkest suspicions were soon confirmed. The Boston suburb was to be the first of 15 localities where the Government plans to build anti-ballistic-missile (ABM) sites. Now, like other communities across the country, Lynnfield is fighting the nuclear intrusion with all its limited means...
...according to the court, had been recruited as a spy in 1943. It was certainly not inconceivable that all or some of the executed men were indeed Israeli spies. However, in the past when Israeli spies were captured, the Jerusalem government either admitted their identity or else kept quiet. This time Foreign Minister Abba Eban declared that the accusations were "without a shred of truth." Washington agreed that the executed men were not in a position to spy for anyone. Throughout the world, they were widely considered to be innocent because the trials had been held in secret...
Like a child who insists on a happy ending for The Red Shoes, Mia remains transcendentally tranquil about the chairman of the board. Though the divorce decree is final, she still absently refers to Sinatra as "my husband," still remembers him wistfully as "a gentle, quiet man." Yet she offers the best clue as to why the marriage proved unworkable: "Maybe it bothered him not being young. He felt things getting away from him. My friends from India would come into the house barefoot and hand him a flower. That made him feel square for the first time...
...unexpected Saint-Gobain defense prompted BSN accusations that the company itself had illegally financed the purchases. Although Vogüé denied any wrongdoing, French Premier Maurice Couve de Murville ordered two quiet government investigations. No matter what the outcome of the inquiries, the battle itself has put French businessmen on notice that the old days of secrecy, silence and short-changed stockholders have faded. From now on, even the most tradition-steeped French managements will have to produce results in the profit column or face the possibility of another such flamboyant takeover attempt...