Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department officials called the Russian story as fantastic as the wildest of space-cadet comic strips. What really happened, they said, was that Mrs. Sommerlatte and a friend, the wife of Assistant Naval Attaché Houston Stiff, were out on a quiet, picture-taking stroll when they were pulled into a building by two Soviet secret agents and detained for more than an hour. The Soviet version of the incident, said U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen, "is in such flagrant contradiction of the facts that I am sure the Soviet Foreign Ministry will wish to change it." Even after...
...Manhattan's Basin Street, and a fortnight ago they listened and cheered him in Carnegie Hall. Last week they listened in Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis as the Brubeck Quartet swung through the Midwest (as part of a jazz-concert package). Not everybody likes Brubeck's intense, quiet music; a lot of Bourbon drinkers still prefer the wilder, louder jazz that thrives on full bottles. But in a matter of five years, Brubeck fans have grown from a small, West Coast clique to a coast-to-coast crowd-particularly on college campuses. What people hear and cheer...
...weekday night Princeton is quiet except for an occasional shout through the campus ant the mellow mean of the college jazz band. Most undergraduates spend the evening among the open stacks of Friesians library, which stays open until midnight...
...Hall usually meant disciplinary action, Harvard College developed a tradition for great and powerful Deans. Perhaps the greatest and most powerful-and the kindest-was the now legendary Dean Briggs. It was in his tradition that Chester N. Greenough ruled. And it was in Greenough's footsteps that a quiet, pipe smoking assistant professor of Government hesitatingly assumed the Deanship...
...Chester Hanford is the one person who is always thinking of the other fellow," Lambic explains. "Most of us haven't got it in us. No matter what happens he is thoughtful. I would call it quiet strength...