Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question is, then, what is the best way to fight the racist extremists? Is it by taking an opposite but equally extreme stand and hoping that the result will be a position half way between, or is it by demanding, firmly and quietly, something less than the ideal, indeed aiming publicly for that middle position? We think the latter way--at once flexible and firm, quiet and forceful--is the better answer. To win the legal principle, it was necessary and right for groups like the NAACP to carry their test cases as far as possible, and press for sweeping...
...afternoon, Ike and Mamie drove to Boone-Mamie's birthplace-in a bubble-top Lincoln. Ike stood throughout much of the 65 miles, waving to the crowds gathered in the little towns and at the crossroads, flashing his familiar grin, shouting greetings. At Boone, the Eisenhowers spent a quiet evening with Mamie's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Carlson, then set forth for Newton. In such towns as Ames (where Ike chuckled at members of one Iowa State College fraternity standing at attention with golf clubs at shoulder arms), Huxley, Mitchellville and Lone Tree Junction...
...scaffold stood 23-year-old Stelios Mavrommatis, sentenced to death for shooting at two R.A.F. men (he did not hit them). Fearing a Cypriot demonstration, British troops set up radio posts and roadblocks to guard every approach to the prison. For most of the night there was only deathly quiet. Then, sometime before dawn, through the muffling thickness of the prison walls a macabre chant broke the silence. Some 170 political prisoners shouted in unison, "Eoka, Eoka," and "Down with Harding!" Prison stools slammed against stone walls. At the moment calculated for the hanging, someone cried out "Goodbye, Stelios, goodbye...
When his first play, The Last Station, a taut, somber drama about the fall of Berlin in 1945, was given its world premiere at the West Berlin cultural festival, Novelist Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front) received an ovation as he appeared onstage after a performance that was cheered with 30 curtain calls...
...hope that integration would proceed smoothly if everyone (and especially the NAACP) kept quiet was blighted, however, when the opening of school resurrected the issue with renewed intensity at Mansfield, Clay, and Sturgis. Since that time each of the candidates has come out with his own appeal to the integrity of the South...