Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most obvious choice to take over, as Acting Majority Leader, was Kentucky's Senator Earle C. Clements, the Democratic whip, who, like Johnson, has the invaluable knack of staying on good terms with all shades of Democratic Senate factionalism. Clements is a quiet, industrious, somewhat ponderous behind-the-scenes operator-but he has yet to demonstrate that he can fill the big Senate shoes of Lyndon Johnson...
...during the 1945-54 period, threw off his colorful vestments at the altar in burned San Miguel Church and told the congregation that henceforth he would wear only simple black as a sign that his soul was in mourning. But the Papal Nuncio, the Vatican's ambassador, began quiet talks with Perón's Foreign Minister. The presumed topic: a concordat that would separate church from state in the manner of most of the rest of the world...
...colleges. We have set out with great zeal to make friends and influence the public, and in so doing we have not only persuaded our professors to be more discreet, we have drugged these same professors into absolute silence . . . It may be quite true that our universities are quiet today because they have been intimidated . . . It is my personal conviction, however, that the real problem of the university today is not so much that fear has stopped it from freedom of utterance, but rather that misguided P.R. policies have led to an absence of those disturbing, pioneering, provocative ideas which...
Another advantage may prove more important than efficiency. The bypass engine is comparatively quiet, and this is a vital virtue for airlines that fear to fly screaming jets from airports besieged by embattled neighbors. The bypass principle can even silence the afterburner, whose bone-shaking thunder would otherwise keep it from being used to get heavy transports off the ground...
This was what happened in 1951 when the sun was active. Last summer the sun was in a quiet mood. The clouds in space had dissipated, allowing the weak particles to approach the earth. Most of them were chased away by the earth's magnetic field, but a few hit the magnetic chimney and reached a close-in altitude where the scientist's instruments could catch and count them...