Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception, a book on the effects of peyote, use of the drug does not cause any sort of aggressive tendencies, as does use of alcohol or narcotics. Instead, it tends to make the user quiet and introspective during the approximately 12 hours it has effect...
...loose. New York's "Mad Bomber" was the terror of the city and the darling of crime reporters as he planted his homemade pipe-and-powder bombs in theaters and public buildings. Once captured, he turned out to be quiet, round-faced George Metesky, a 54-year-old bachelor who was more confused than cunning (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week, after studying Metesky's medical reports, Kings County Judge Samuel Leibowitz noted that Metesky, too unsound of mind to stand trial, is also dying of tuberculosis, committed him to a state hospital for the criminally insane. Said Leibowitz...
Pivot of the shift was Jordan, which in nine years has been transformed from a quiet Bedouin kingdom to a turbulent and strife-torn nation dominated by Palestine Arabs. The crisis in Jordan was misleadingly billed by Arabs and Israelis alike as strictly an "internal" Jordanian affair. It was anything but that. Jordan is an artificial country carved out of the desert, and cannot live without support from somebody. Ever since the British abdicated, King Hussein's chaotic and impoverished kingdom has been open to every neighbor's intervention. During last fall's Sinai war, neighboring Arab...
Hussein fired Nabulsi April 10, shortly after the reseolution came out, and set off the chain of events which now finds the desert kingdom quiet under martial law. The King had asked Nabulsi's government to launch an anti-Communist propaganda campaign...
Promptly at six o'clock last evening the second chapter of the famed Baker Street Irregulars held a quiet meeting at the Signet Society. The group, consisting mostly of professors, doctors, mystery writers and lawyers is named the Speckled Band, from one of Conan Doyle's stories. It meets annually to honor the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes...