Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with quiet applause that I laid aside TIME after finishing the July 4 article on the President. Here at last was something I had waited for: an excellent, concise report of the successes and failures of Eisenhower . . . There were not many failures...
Under strict orders to rest and stay quiet after his recent heart attack (TIME. July 11), Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson gazed innocently up from his National Naval Medical Center bed and told doctors of his abiding love for hillbilly music. If he could just have a radio to listen to the comin'-round-the-mountaineers, Johnson hinted, it would help relax him. The doctors considered and agreed. Johnson got his radio, and was soon listening to every news broadcast and political commentator that he could reach on the dial. There are few things that he loathes more than...
Lowest Point. Aoki's colony was making quiet progress when the islanders were suddenly aroused by a Japanese plan to build a leprosarium on Okinawa. They burned the lumber for the buildings, finally forced Tokyo to postpone the plan. Then an enterprising newspaper printed a story about Aoki's work, and nearby farmers marched on the colony, pulled the huts down with ropes (they were afraid to touch the boards) and burned them. Aoki's small band got until sundown to get off Okinawa. They fled by boat to an uninhabited island off the coast to start...
...recordings, in Room G156 of the Library of Congress. Next door is a recording studio and a small listening booth. This is the physical plant of the Folklore Section of the Library of Congress. The secretary of this treasury - as well as collector, personnel manager and salesman - is a quiet, greying scholar of 47 named Duncan Black Macdonald Emrich, author of, among other things, Who Shot Maggie in the Freckle...
...several telescoping cylinders fitting around the tail pipe, and a segmented cone that can be closed or opened. When the airplane takes off within earshot of neighbors, the cylinders will be extended and the cone closed. The mighty stream of hot gases will be broken into small and comparatively quiet jets. After the aircraft is high in the air, the cylinders will be drawn back into the engine's nacelle and the cone will be opened. Then the engine will have full thrust for economical cruising, and its noise, muffled by distance and altitude, will not matter...