Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gibson's quiet humor and relaxed manner was enjoyable, but I felt that this young folksinger would be more effective in a night club than on the concert stage. The humorous, catchy folksong is Mr. Gibson's forte; he delighted his audience with "The Horse Named Bill," a nonsensical little number that has been a favorite on college campuses for generations. His recollections of Aspen and his own song "Super-skier" were delightful...
...that your decisions are based on much more full and accurate evidence than judgments on a book you haven't even read." Newsmen who had overheard the conversation at first agreed that they would consider it off the record; but the story, too intriguing and important to keep quiet, was printed two days later, first by Des Moines Register and Tribune Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff...
Pork Chop Hill. Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), working from S. L. A. Marshall's Korean battle report, tells the heart-racking story of a latter-day Thermopylae...
...survey of Communist China's domination of 650 million people and the quiet political division of Great Britain's 50 million initiated the annual International Seminar last night...
...Quiet Place. This discovery gave a wholly new look to theories about the circulation of the Atlantic. The long-established notion of nearly stagnant ocean depths is now doubtful. Photographs taken of the bottom show ripple marks much like those caused by tidal currents on bathing beaches. Ocean basins with ripple marks on their bottoms must have been stirred by currents at some time in their past, and they may be stirred still...