Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native of Elkins Park, Pa. . . . I had an understandably keen interest in the Wright-designed synagogue [TIME, May 31] that is planned for my quiet suburban community. Esthetically I am inexperienced, but somehow I feel that Mr. Wright's inspiration is about as appropriate to its proposed location as Connie Mack Stadium is to suburban Singapore...
...time (e.g., Dienbienphu, Seno), but they were clearly no match for the regulars of the Red Viet Minh. Disillusioned by Dienbienphu and fearful that they would be sold out at Geneva, the Vietnamese were now losing outposts at the rate of three or four a day, especially in "quiet" South Viet Nam; they were losing 200 rifles a month in one province without a single engagement; their public support had so dwindled that only 10,000 responded to last month's "emergency" 100,000-man draft...
...eventually his moment comes. An assistant director with a voice like a backfield coach bawls: "Keep it quiet now, boys. Quiet. Quiet, if you please!" A gong bangs with doomlike clangor. A horrid silence falls. "Speed," mutters the man in the bucket seat of the huge Mitchell camera, peering through its eyepieces as if appalled. Then, while the 50 hairy ones look on in a sort of belligerent despair, while the tourists stand on tiptoes, while the director and servitors of the camera lean close enough to breathe on him, the actor kneels beside a chaise longue in the awful...
...Quiet Life. In the years since he married Actress Bacall, Bogart has not abandoned his interest in the practical joke and the convivial glass, or his feeling that there are nights when a man owes it to himself to stay up until dawn. But for all that, he leads an astonishingly quiet life. He reads voluminously, plays chess, and engages his wife at Scrabble. He often takes afternoon naps and tries hard, when he is working, to be in bed and asleep...
...this time the hall was in an uproar, and White pounded in vain to bring back order. Not till 2,000 box lunches of cold fried chicken were brought in and handed out to stockholders did the meeting quiet down. Looking worn and lonely, White stayed on the platform...