Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indonesian request for arms by offering such harmless items as trucks and jeeps, but State again turned him down. Allison's friends complain that his position has been badly distorted in press leaks from Washington (TIME. Dec. 23), believe that he is the victim of some quiet but effective bureaucratic knifing...
...Young, hard hit in his pride and pocket, brooded over his troubles. At a directors' meeting last week in Palm Beach, he was so quiet that one director later phoned him to ask what was the matter. Young brushed him off. To Young none of his troubles were the kind that he could solve, as before, with a single brilliant financial coup or a rough-and-tumble court fight. His goal of empire was moving away from...
When Teacher Ulferts read the theme, she thought it a bit on the morbid side, but did not take it too seriously at the time. An average student, young Ingledue had never caused any trouble. "He was," said Teacher Ulferts later, "a very quiet boy. Very quiet...
Last week police announced that the quiet boy was in the Hennepin County Jail. The night after he wrote his theme, he had gone quietly into his parents' bedroom, wounded both with two blasts from a shotgun. Then he drove off in the family car 80 miles out of town until his conscience caught up with him, and he gave himself...
Sooner or later the genuine novelist discovers that his bread and butter depends on the quiet desperations that lie imbedded in the lives of most men and women. How he handles them is one measure of his worth. Texas-born William Humphrey, 33, has learned his lesson early. Alongside a fine book of short stories (The Last Husband and Other Stories), he can now place a first novel that shows how extraordinary the ordinary can be. Home from the Hill tells a story that will be largely familiar to every small-towner. What takes it well beyond village gossip...