Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hussein was content to let others run the government. Glubb Pasha, trusted and devoted servant of old King Abdullah, kept the Israeli border quiet and the Legion hotheads in check. Elderly politicians left over from Abdullah's day swapped ministerial posts like musical chairs, and one ministerial clique won the name in Jordan of "the Mau Mau" for the rapacity of their treasury raids. Young Hussein exercised his royal functions unpredictably, showed up at his office erratically, was royally late for appointments with distinguished visitors. Once he encouraged a "purging committee" to clean up the government, paid surprise visits...
...Eliot man, then, chooses relative individualism, he still feels an intense pride in his Hose, a pride that manifests itself not in pep rallies for the Elephants' football team, but in a quiet confidence in the House's excellence an leadership...
Conway, nonetheless praiseworthy, achieves the same effect with his quiet sincerity and equally genuine interest. These two are backed by a very fine tutorial staff slanted towards the Humanities and Social Sciences...
Physically Lowell is the most beautiful House on campus. Its large and small courtyards are dominated by a massive belltower harboring the major threat to Sunday quiet along the river front. But even when the large Russian bells shatter the air at 12:30 p.m. few residents are disturbed. They merely flock to the dining hall and create the longest line of the week...
...House Library, fairly quiet, and usually well filled, has a particularly fine selection in English and Government, and contains a good record collection which can be signed out or used in the record-listening room. Ping-Pong and pool tables can be found in the recreation room, while popular superintendent Gordon Ramey gives direction to the House darkroom...