Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State Frank Marsh's home in Lincoln, and asked Marsh to accept Buffett's filing for Butler's unexpired term. Secretary Marsh, holding that the deadline had passed when he locked his statehouse office at 5 p.m.. refused. Later that night, in the quiet darkness of the statehouse, Lincoln Public-Relations Man John Quinn carefully slipped his own filing under the door of Marsh's office...
...Agriculture Committee voted 8-7 to continue high, rigid support of basic farm-crop prices (the House Agriculture Committee had already voted 21-8 for the same policy), Republican Bowring rose on the Senate floor to make her maiden speech. She knew that freshman Senators are supposed to be quiet, she said, but "I feel that the hour is crucial, and that the circumstances demand that I make my position known." Her position: the congressional committee majorities were dead wrong; the flexible price-support plan backed by Secretary of Agriculture Benson and President Eisenhower "will best serve the future...
France is slowly but steadily losing her grip on her North African empire. Morocco has been in turmoil for a year. Until recently, nearby Tunisia was relatively quiet, but last spring nationalists began stirring in Tunisia. The nationalists were dissatisfied with the limited "reforms" offered by Resident General Pierre Voizard; they were enraged by the moving of exiled Habib Bourguiba, the anti-Communist leader of Tunisia's most powerful political group, the Neo-Destour
Early one morning last week, Lieut. Colonel Sir Geoffrey Betham, secretary of a tony country club on the Thames, went out for a quiet spin in his motor launch. As he churned along the rowing course at Henley, Sir Geoffrey came upon a strange sight. A slim figure was moving along the bank, methodically measuring with a length of chain. Peering through the grey English drizzle, Sir Geoffrey recognized Nikolai Kolosovsky, coxswain of the crack Russian Eight that was entered in the Henley Royal Regatta. "By gad," exploded Sir Geoffrey, "they're checking the course! These Russians! They...
School for Hope shuns brogue but catches the lilt of Irish talk, skirts bathos but dips candidly into human feelings. In its quiet, pastoral way, it celebrates nature as well as human nature. No more pretentious than a mousetrap, it captures the novelist's most elusive mouse-a little bit of life...