Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over, there were language classes on some of the boats to brush up fading high school French and German; on the trip back, one boat's students were teaching English--to 200 DP's headed for Canada. Meetings and conferences sprang up in abundance. The moment one found a quiet corner, it would turn out that some sort of meeting was about to begin there, on anything from Scandinavian socialism to the German Baroque...
...Swiss chalet at New Paltz, N.Y., Oscar (Tschirky) of the Waldorf, in semi-retirement since 1943, observed his 83rd birthday at a quiet family dinner...
Florence's stately Parco delle Cascine (Park of the Farmsteads) is full of quiet, ponderous chestnut trees and brooding live oaKs beneath which the members of the city's best society used to walk on Sunday afternoons, exchanging courtly salutes and smiling at one another's poodles. With their customary sense of historic irony, Italy's Communists last week chose this park for the biggest, gaudiest clambake that Dante's city had seen in many a year...
...carpenters had fashioned for him a 50-ft. barge caparisoned with gold brocade and Persian carpets, and propelled by oarsmen in white uniforms and crimson turbans. Nehru sat on a thronelike platform. At his feet played his two small grandsons, wearing Gandhi caps just like grandpa. Beside him sat quiet Karan Singh, Kashmir's powerless yuveraja (prince), and tall Sheikh Mohamed Abdullah, Kashmir's Prime Minister, real boss and Nehru's agent in the struggle with Pakistan over possession of Kashmir...
...England had its last major quake in 1755, after which the ground stayed pretty quiet until about 1920. Since then, the earth's crust in this area has shown a tendency to come to life, Leet said, with an average of five or six minor quakes a year...