Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...townfolk liked the idea-but nearly all of them accepted it as law. Then upon Clinton descended Demagogue Frederick John Kasper, 27, a Washington, D.C. bookseller (now free on $10,000 bond while a contempt-of-court conviction is being appealed), to breathe racial fire into the quiet town. The vast majority of Clintonians remained willing to obey the law. But some followed Kasper, set themselves up as an obscene, stone-throwing vigilante group, drove the Negro children from Clinton high school (TIME, Sept...
There are some undergraduates, however, who prefer to live outside the Houses although they do not fulfill the qualifications. These individuals find that the Houses, with their overcrowding, make it impossible to pursue studies or other work in peace, quiet, and solitude. Communal living is beneficial, but there are times when a quiet nook away from the world and roommates is more desirable...
Rather than rule out departures the Masters would do better to let the Senior Tutors grant permission to leave the Houses when they think wise. They would also do well to advocate more single rooms and quiet halls in the new Houses so that, in the future, their belief that every undergraduate should live in a House would be more realistic...
Once again Kadar's Russian masters moved to his rescue. "By night," reported TIME Correspondent Edgar Clark from Budapest, "the city is usually quiet and no Hungarians are abroad after the 9 o'clock curfew. Late last Saturday night and early Sunday morning it was different. The sporadic flourish of small arms fire and an occasional artillery shot echoed and re-echoed from the hills of Buda. Reinforcements of Soviet tanks were moving into the city. They came because Budapest streets were littered on Saturday afternoon with leaflets calling for a 'total strike' in the name...
Memo from Girl Friday: Gossipist Walter Winchell and his radio sponsor have phhht. Happened four weeks ago, even before his splituation with TV, because sponsor, Seaboard Drug Co., feared consequences of columnist's "long series of offensive remarks" about Adlai Stevenson on his weekly newscast. Sponsor kept it quiet to give Mutual time to dig up fresh scratch (WW's weekly take: $5,000), but Winchell began sniping at Seaboard Drug in newspaper column. Sponsor exploded. "Malicious, libelous and untrue," said Seaboard President Harry Patterson. "The man has gone...