Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief Justice Earl Warren read the 17-page opinion word for word in a quiet proceeding, while in Little Rock the lease plan blessed by Gov. Orval E. Faubus was being put into effect...
Open Complaints. But the quiet rebellion continued. Sixty-five students of Hall High School signed a petition demanding the reopening of their school, even if it meant integration. A student-run poll of 501 junior and senior high school pupils (Little Rock's total: 3,698) showed that 71% wanted schools reopened, even if integrated. A mothers' committee of 50, organized by matriarchal, Vassar-educated Mrs. David D. Terry of one of Little Rock's first families, went to work campaigning for acceptance of limited integration as the only means to keep public education alive in Arkansas...
...four years' imprisonment. Shocked at the severity of the sentence, relatives and friends in the courtroom gasped in dismay, burst into hysterical sobs outside. Two of the boys were so shaken they had to be helped down the 32 steps to their cells. But that night, all was quiet in Notting Hill...
...celebrated on the French Riviera, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill received the attentions of an esteeming world: telegrams and letters (from the Queen, the Prime Minister, the President of the U.S.), hampers of flowers, a gallon of 119-year-old cognac, a 25-lb. chocolate cigar. The day was quiet, with a few champagne toasts on the villa terrace; but, as the New York Times editorialized, it was "still another great day in a life that has known much greatness...
...deep underground explosion sends no air waves, but such explosions, and surface explosions too, send seismic waves through the earth. A station in a quiet place can detect the waves from a one-kiloton explosion as much as 2,200 miles away. The detecting apparatus is accurate enough to pinpoint the explosion within an area of 40-80 sq. mi., less than one-quarter the area of New York City...