Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of telephone calls, Columnist Coates learned that the child, Larry, whose last name had been kept secret by juvenile authorities, was the son of a quiet, respectable couple living in nearby Eagle Mountain, a 150-house company town where iron ore is mined for Henry Kaiser's Fontana steel mill. To Columnist Coates, the charges against Larry seemed no worse than the offenses of thousands of other curious youngsters of his age. He had, said the record, placed his hands under the dress of a little girl, aged five. Why had he been jailed? The authorities said that...
Since even the two principals were now convinced that their politics were not the issue, the outburst began to quiet. But the Faculty, while willing to forgive, could not forget. One hundred and thirty-one of the nonpermanent teaching staff requested an entire investigation of the tenure system. Even if the financial pressures of the depression made it impossible for Conant to keep men like Sweezy, these teachers did not feel that the current methods of selecting permanent appointees were as accurate and well-defined as they might...
Then in 1947 he suddenly burst into the quiet world of art scholarship with a massive study of the philosophy of art which one dazzled critic hailed as "one of the really great books of our time...
...make exams as quiet as possible," Kennedy said. "McKay's idea would cause too much confusion. It would be a different story if we had enough space to have every exam held in a separate room...
Novelist Goncharov was incapable of firing off the demoniac, soul-searching pyrotechnics of a Tolstoy or a Dostoevsky, but with quiet irony and firm psychological realism he stirred his TNT in a teacup...