Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next step should have been for Adolf Hitler to begin throwing his weight about. Instead he kept quiet. He, like the rest of Europe, appeared to be dazzled by the possibility that Lord Runciman might solve the Czechoslovak Question without bloodshed or heroics...
...quiet before dawn last week, a band of 400 dandelion-eating, political-minded peasants struck at the two-year rule of Greek Dictator General John Metaxas. They marched into the stony streets of Canea, ancient seaport and capital of Crete. At their head stepped former Minister of National Economy in the Athens Government, young Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Venizelos, and ex-Mayor Mountakis of Canea...
...preparatory schools, and its headmastership always ranked high, but Dr. Drury's nolo episcopari enormously increased the prestige of the job. When stern, sonorous Dr. Drury died last February, S. P. S. trustees searched the Church for a man capable of filling Dr. Drury's shoes. Meanwhile, quiet Vice-Rector Crocker Kittredge, son of Harvard's famed Professor George Lyman ("Kitty"') Kittredge, ran the school...
...Question, not a war. 2) None doubted that in Paris the British had urged the French to help induce Prague to make to the Sudeten Germans the utmost concessions likely to avert war, short of destroying the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia. 3) It was certain that Mr. Chamberlain's quiet aversion for the Soviet Union, plus his long standing resolve to draw Britain, Germany, France and Italy into a common accord at the first opportunity, made the inclusion or exclusion of Moscow from any pending Czechoslovak settlement the most difficult point in the discussions at Paris last week. French Premier...
...dictator was editor of the Italian Socialist Party's central newspaper. Her picture of him- brooding, explosive, egocentric, enigmatic, alternately violent and timid-is the most interesting part of My Life as a Rebel, which is a long (324 pages) record of defeats and betrayals, written with a quiet stoicism unique in angry revolutionary literature...