Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, convinced by Moscow's silence that quiet diplomacy was hopeless, the U.S. released the transcript of the recording, and with it all the background on all the futile talks. A day later the Air Force buried two unidentified members of the lost crew in Arlington National Cemetery. The four other bodies had been sent to their families for burial. Somewhere in Soviet territory were eleven more Air Force men, all of them, perhaps, dead. If there was any consolation for the U.S., it lay in the fact that the free world now knew how they died...
...pursuance of a simple but ingenious scheme for raising money: Hume planned to rob a bank close to the international airport and then return to the Continent on a commercial plane for which he had made a reservation. Hume chose a branch of the Midland Bank in a quiet side street in Brentford, outside London. He shot down a bank clerk, scooped up some $3,000, and was in an airplane and winging his way over the Channel before Scotland Yard had a physical description of the robber. Three months later he duplicated the crime, seriously wounded a British bank...
...York City regiment in the Rainbow Division popularly known as the Fighting 69th, World War II director of the Office of Strategic Services, which conducted U.S. espionage activity behind enemy lines, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand (1953-54); in Washington. Shy, mild Bill Donovan had an antonymic nickname, quiet reserves of courage. Near the Marne in 1918, with a machine-gun bullet in his leg, Colonel Donovan refused evacuation, set an example that won him the Medal of Honor...
...gloves, its short fingers outlined in yellow angora, fell to the floor. All Lucius had to do was stretch down and touch it, but Miss Schroeder, moving with a speed unnatural to her bulk, quickly retrieved it. And soon, after a moment of stillness, he heard a quiet, but unmistakable, "Oh!," and he knew it had really been worth...
...Library, however, is basically a quiet sort of organization which is quite happy to see the scholar, but not particularly interested in seeing anyone else. And justifiably so, for its facilities are adequate, even superb, but only for the sort of literary aristocracy which has a need for primary material. If anyone has a particular interest in an author or work it may be possible for him to see it in manuscript form at Houghton, but not to use it, if it is at all possible for him to use a secondary work...