Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hillbillies are so frightening, why do thousands of Yankee tourists swarm Southward annually and enter our quiet, air-conditioned restaurants attired in wrinkled slacks and baseball caps, loudly inquiring "whurs da ladies' room...
Back at the Compound. Beck often spends a quiet evening with Dorothy, a gentle, grey-haired woman who suffers from high blood pressure. Beck likes to read ("I've read nearly everything ever written about Napoleon"; "I just got through Citadel by William White of the N.Y. Times, and incidentally, it's a hell of a condemnation of the excesses in congressional investigations"), and he also enjoys television. He dotes on big-money quiz shows. "I do fairly good on some of those questions," says Beck, in a rueful comparison with his answers on John McClellan...
...sweltering day in Washington last summer Reporter Clark Mollenhoff of the Des Moines Register strolled into the offices of the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to see the chief counsel, Robert Francis Kennedy. Things were kind of quiet around town, said Mollenhoff: there must be something worth investigating. Asked Kennedy: "Have you any ideas?" Mollenhoff, who had been writing stories about corruption and abuses in the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for six years, indeed had an idea: the Teamsters. He showed Kennedy some of his clippings, and emphasized the national significance of what newsmen had been digging...
From Norway, which was united in indignation, Bulganin switched his diplomatic drumfire to Denmark and Sweden. Sweden, neutral since 1814, was outraged by the Russian intervention in Hungary, and recently shaken by a succession of espionage cases involving the Russians. Sweden was advised to quiet the anti-Russian tone of its press. Denmark, which like Norway has bases but forbids NATO planes to occupy them except under threat of imminent attack, got a Bulganin note eight days after Norway's. It was just as blunt: "If war is opened against the U.S.S.R., the annihilating power of modern weapons...
...Peace. The quiet folk won out. Finally, oats, corn and beans were made to grow, and the government ended the Villistas' raids. Today, the colony supports 15,000 Mennonites who live in 54 campos, small communities of 40 or 50 families. In some ways the Chihuahua settlers are less determinedly orthodox than the Amish of Pennsylvania. The men wear ordinary straw hats, overalls and work shoes, and the women wear colored homespun (only the older women cling to the black dress). Buttons and zippers are not considered works of the Devil, nails are used in construction, and there...