Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quiet on Earth. In Blackpool, England, telephone operators, hoping for more free holiday time, urged authorities to start a campaign aimed at discouraging "use of the telephone on Christmas Day and New Year...
...cold, and though the rain from the day before had stopped the overcast sky seemed to predict snow and possibly something else. The something else arrived, staring the freshman, the sophomore, the junior, the senior in the face as he opened his door and picked up his usually staid, quiet-looking CRIMSON. Black headlines leaped...
Vultures in the Villages. But the week's worst horror was still to come-from Algeria itself. Eighty miles southeast of Algiers, a patrol-plane pilot noticed huts burning in Kouir Mechta, a quiet, untroublesome stone-and-mud village where the French had always had a cordial welcome. The French dispatched a patrol from the nearest outpost 15 miles away. They found half a dozen dead men surrounded by hysterically screaming women, tearing their cheeks with their fingernails until the blood came. At dawn, said the women, 100 uniformed fellaghas had surrounded the village. They had seized the local...
...Decline of the West Oswald Spengler announced with a certain gloomy satisfaction that "the Caesarism that is to succeed approaches with quiet, firm step." History was always goose-stepping its way through the centuries in Spengler's vision. Compared with his German mentor France's Amaury de Riencourt, 38, a freelance writer and lecturer who now lives in the U.S., is more amiable, less apocalyptic. Compared either with Spengler or other determinist philosophers of history- Toynbee, Pareto, Marx-Author de Riencourt works on an intellectual shoestring...
Divorced. Erich Maria Remarque, 58, German-born novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front, Arch of Triumph); by Else Jeanne Zamboni, 64; for the second time (they were first married in 1923, divorced in 1930, remarried in 1938); in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...