Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such quiet restoration of the peace is typical of the University Police forces it almost always manages to quell annual springtime outbursts, or full-fledged football riots without wielding a club or swinging a fist. Instead, Lt. Matthew J. Toohy's 33-man force employs the subtler methods learned from many years of experience with College students...
...band struck up the National Anthem, and a salute was fired. "After the thunder of the salute," whispered Radio Moscow's announcer, "how quiet it is in Red Square...
...that, however, was now forgotten. "There's nothing like the threat of annihilation," said one Laborite, "to bring chaps together." In a quiet meeting of the parliamentary Labor party, ousted Bevan was taken back into the fold without a whisper of opposition, and in the party manifesto outlining Labor's platform, Nye Sevan's stand against the nuclear bomb took first place, followed by the usual biting condemnation of everything Tory...
Specifically the Council urged that 1) because of the projected health center location at Mt. Auburn St., between Holyoke and Dunster Sts., "steps . . . be taken to insulate the infirmary from the noise of student revelries which occasionally break the quiet of that area"; 2) that a student lounge with reading, radio, and television facilities be established in the infirmary for those who are well enough...
...maudlin. And Elizabeth Allen's performance presents Louise Scobie in terms so plausible that it is impossible to condemn her. Without careful performances in there two roles, Howard's job of showing the desperate insolubility of Scobie's problem would have been incredibly difficult. As it is, however, his quiet agony of indecision is totally convincing...