Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hulot's Holiday provides several hours of quiet for those who have grown tired of talking to people in Widener. At the Strand...
...Canadian immigration center in London's Mayfair district, long queues of men, women and children overflowed into the street from morning to night all last week. Ordinarily, winter is a quiet time at Canada's overseas immigration bureaus. But ever since the Suez crisis, immigration offices in Britain have been stormed by a steady rush of Britons who want to move to Canada...
...burned, a quiet wick in a wild night, Loving what lie beheld and will behold...
...Frenchman who has lived in Mexico and Colombia, Juanito has animal strength and animal cunning. In a time of trouble he might have become another Pancho Villa. In a time of peace he is simply an anachronism, tolerated by the señores because he keeps his village quiet, but readily expendable when he grows too big and too troublesome. Sitting in his death cell, Juanito reflects that of all his crimes the most serious was the driving of the schoolteacher from Naolinco. Too late he recognizes that "the schoolmaster had been right-the señores had won because...
This affecting book shows how difficult it is to break the human spirit-whether that of a little girl dying of cancer or of the mother who must watch her die. Until 1951 the Gabrielsons were a happy, quiet, literate family with two precocious children, an apartment in Manhattan and a cottage on Cape Cod. They found their fun in intellectual games and artistic hobbies, their deepest satisfactions in each other and in friends...