Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenya, Chief of Foreign Correspondents Manfred Gottfried went with Johannesburg Correspondent Edward Hughes to Nyeri, not long ago the center of Mau Mau activity. Gone were the barricades, gun emplacements, and the black tent where captured terrorists were hanged. After strolling quiet streets, lunching at the famous Outspan Hotel, and watching golfers on velvety fairways at the edge of the bush, Gottfried remarked: "Why, this looks about as wild and woolly as a Connecticut village." Right after he left, a new emergency arose: three giant buffaloes, most vicious of all African game, crashed into Nyeri, killed a woman, injured...
...Coronary.' It's the only train that has an elevator meeting it at Winnetka. If you can't take the kidding, you're not getting along well. The whole trend in treatment is to kid about it. My first reaction was to keep my attack quiet. My doctor said, 'We will, like hell. I'm going to put it in the papers'-and he did. In that way, you're relieved of the secret...
Tillich remains generally unaffected by all the praise he has received. "If someone charged him in public with having an intellect," Buttrick has said, "he'd be terribly embarrassed." His sense of humor usually remains latent, but it erupts perhaps once a month with some such example of quiet Tillichian humor as: "In Germany the parents bring up the child; in America the child brings up the parents. I moved from Germany to America, so I lose both ways." Or, there was the slightly irreverent remark that Tillich made after the death of an eminent religious philosopher: "Such a shame...
Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor and one of the nation's leading authorities on civil rights, celebrates a quiet 70th birthday today--his last, he says, as an active teacher. Chafee will retire at the end of this year after teaching at Harvard steadily since...
...more than $12.3 million. It has made itself ready for expansion by drilling and then capping gas wells all over the Southeast. Yet not even this is enough for quick-thinking Kayser; things seldom move fast enough for him. "Sometimes," he once confided to a friend in a quiet moment, "I go over and take a trip through Carlsbad Caverns and think. 'This wasn't built in a day.' " But the impression never lasts long...