Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nowhere, I had the word, and the word was round. It was the time, and I set off along quiet streets--past the football field, looking for kicks; past country gardens, digging the carrots and onions; and then ahead of me I saw the curving, calling, mystic, roaring highway. And it was the time, and Schaefer was my kind of beer, and I was gone...
...China), also slashed at "world-ambulating" Secretary of State Dulles for dragging the U.S. to "the brink of having to fight a nuclear war." The Advisory Council's added point (later opposed by Harry Truman): although there may be dangerous times when an opposition ought to keep quiet, the Quemoy-Matsu crisis "is not such a case...
...despite the fact that De Gaulle has sent emissaries to Cairo to sound out the rebels, no serious cease-fire negotiations have taken place. But last week both Tunisian and Moroccan leaders were trying to persuade the rebels to keep quiet during next month's elections, on the understanding that the Moslem Deputies to be elected in Algeria would be regarded by De Gaulle as his intermediaries with the F.L.N. Whether or not the rebels agreed to this scheme, it was a measure of Charles de Gaulle's political accomplishments that, for the first time in four bloody...
...evil, preaches Greene (as he did in his anti-U.S. novel, The Quiet American), can be caused by the relatively innocent. Wormold's phony reports touch off a vicious series of reprisals from sources never quite labeled. The enemy kill and hound real people whom they suspect as Wormold's agents. He is himself abused by Cuban police and nearly poisoned at a businessman's lunch. The deadly joke reaches back to London, where the big boys recognize their mistake but do not dare admit it. The end is heavily ironic...
...course of his tour of the University, Menshikov visited several rooms in Lowell House. He found them "very-nice" and conveniently quiet for studying. When it was explained that the rooms were "typical" of rooms in the University both in size and financial cost and were similar to those which the Russian students will occupy, he appeared quite pleased...