Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hills, vulnerable to artillery and machine-gun fire from the heights both at the camp and its 4,000-ft. airstrip. Some of the hills are controlled by Marines. But others, like Hill 881 North, which the Marines took with such blood last May, were abandoned during the quiet months since and have been repossessed by the North Vietnamese. One Communist-held hill, numbered 950 (all are named after their height in meters), runs parallel to Khe Sanh's runway only three miles away and commands a view of the entire camp. The North Vietnamese have dug antiaircraft...
...have gone into politics. And yet to Canadians, Pearson's brief and peculiarily muddled political career is of great interest, for it establishes the man as one of their own. In both successes of his four-and-a-half year administration, and in its drab confusion and its quiet disasters, he had faithfully mirrored the problems and the character of his country...
Sometimes get kinda quiet...
...rivaling the Post's more comprehensive coverage at home and abroad. Its planning for the coming presidential campaign is characteristic. "The Post," says Newbold Noyes, "will try to do everything. But that requires no judgment. We want to decide what is important and cover those aspects well." This quiet, well-mannered approach to the news has been gaining readers: the Star's circulation has risen 51,078, to 309,245, in the past five years. In the same period, the Post's circulation increased 58,804, to 467,505. From time to time, the Star has held...
From Mistakes, Profit. But brutality is only one side of Bennett's musical style; in his new symphony, and in his film score for John Schlesinger's moody translation of the Hardy novel, Bennett writes with a supple sense of melodic line and quiet, iridescent orchestral color. His Symphony offers the proposition that even at the furthest limits of harmony it is possible to reach a listener with broad melodic lines and ruddy emotionality. Although it speaks the orchestral language with assurance, the Symphony is obviously the work of a man who prefers opera to all other musical...