Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after Lyndon Johnson had been elected in his own right. The U.S. is in grave crisis, yet the President-elect has revealed little of his design; he has remained immured in his Manhattan headquarters, working long hours but making few public statements. Washington waits this week with quiet anticipation for the installation of Richard Nixon, uncertain about the tone and thrust of his presidency, but looking happily forward to the fun and fanfare of the celebration...
...from the west came two planes. The crowd was quiet again, quiet for ten minutes as the planes circled and finally lurched to a stop in front of the field...
...Bible, emerging each morning with a view of life that thousands of readers accept as reality." Within the sprawling kingdom, several dukes jealously protect their own fiefdoms and young knights strive to develop their own. It is a kingdom filled with tension. "During the last few years a quiet revolution has been going on within the Times," writes Talese. "Older Timesmen feared that the paper was losing touch with its tradition and younger men felt trapped by tradition...
Crushed Expectancy. Next afternoon, the crowd gathered in the Zebra Room for the "Operation Match get-together" looks like a sampling from the line outside Radio City Music Hall. Much of the previous evening's frenzy has spent itself. The room is quiet as Milgrim begins his spiel. "A lot of you won't believe this," he says, "but within twelve months' time seven or eight percent of the people in this room will be married to someone they met on this cruise." When the self-conscious laughter subsides, he explains that "because of the small sample...
...Nixon, 20, Presidentelect Richard M. Nixon's younger daughter; and Dwight David Eisenhower II, 20, only grandson of former President Dwight Eisenhower; in a 15-minute ceremony performed at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church by the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Julie wanted the wedding to be quiet, private and as small as possible. Only 500 family and friends were at the church, while Ike and Mamie watched over closed-circuit TV from his suite at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The only departure from the script came when Julie kissed her dad before...