Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator, Spong also considers his role to be legislative rather than political--"I've been keeping quiet and trying to do a good job on my committees, especially since they're dealing with things like highways and pollution that are important to urban areas...
...quiet devotion to Senate chores gives him a handy excuse for staying out of Virginia's political struggles at a time when the Organization still controls county governments, the state legislature, and the governor's mansion. Last summer his allies soundly defeated Kellam's brother in a primary race for the State Senate, but he says, "I didn't do anything--I've set off a movement that will keep growing whether I do anything or not." The young lawyers who helped in his 1966 campaign are planning to move into politics for themselves, and "I couldn't stop them...
...strafing from his opponents, as his reelection campaign gets underway. "Men may debate and men may dissent, men may disagree, and God forbid that a time should come when men of this land may not," the President said, but he added that now was the time when debate should quiet and "men must stand...
Washington Street starts at the mouth of the Charles, sweeps southwest past Government Center, Z-slashes through the heart of West Roxbury, and plunges dead south through the suburbs of Dedham and Westwood. For most of these 25 miles, the street is dark and quiet...
...alone with his ego, holding it limp and spent in his hand, looking at himself in the bathroom mirror of his shame: And in the privacy of his brain, quiet in the glare of all that sound and spotlight, Mailer thought quietly, "My God, that is probably exactly what you are at this moment, Lyndon Johnson with all his sores, sorrows, and vanity squeezed down to five foot eight," and Mailer felt for the instant possessed, as if he had seized some of the President's secret soul...