Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked hard at sociology and economics, got high marks and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; much of his spare time he spent teaching the boys' Bible class of a nearby Baptist church, or working in the college Y.M.C.A. To his surprise, John soon found that his quiet and modest ways were winning him a sincere and ready liking. He was elected president of the junior class, and after the traditionally tipsy annual junior celebration reported proudly to his mother that for the first time in history every one of the 75 juniors came back to campus...
Louisville's quiet achievement in integration drew admiring comment from editorial writers the country over and from President Eisenhower at his weekly press conference. Said the President, of Louisville School Superintendent Omer Carmichael, 63: "[He] must be a very wise man . . . He pursued the policy that I believe will finally bring success in this...
...even while intercepting messages spelling out the Japanese intention to attack. Marshall was not so much concerned about the political implications as he was about the military dangers: the fact that the U.S. had cracked the Japanese code was a zealously guarded military secret. Marshall begged Dewey to keep quiet about the code, and offered a weekly briefing on top U.S. diplomatic and military secrets...
...about it. Last week, while Kansas Citians raged and Kansas' red-faced Congressmen fired off telegrams to Washington, Lawrence Zane, a custodian in the Miami, Okla. post office and duly elected chief of the 900-member Wyandotte tribe, told how simple it was. Said he: "We kept it quiet...
Things were quiet at Koinonia Farm last week. Not many tourists stopped at the newly reopened roadside stand on U.S. 19 because all the signs advertising it had been stolen. The people of Americus, Ga. (pop. 12,000) would like to get rid of Koinonia Farm; it is an embarrassment to some, a scandal to others. For it is a Christian experiment in racial equality...