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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preserve the peace in Little Rock. (Police Chief Marvin Potts apparently was not so sure: he judiciously stayed in his office.) But right at the beginning the Little Rock cops made their first and greatest mistake: they let a crowd begin to gather. It was small at first, and quiet. Asked one man in grey working clothes of another: "What're you doing here?" Came the reply: "Just came by to see what's doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quick, Hard & Decisive | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...trees in a schoolyard near his home, he said, when a car pulled up and the driver got out. The man talked pleasantly to Lee about birds and animals, said his name was Bob. Suddenly the man clapped his hand over Lee's mouth, warned him to "be quiet and don't make any noise because I don't want to hurt you." The kidnaper stuffed a lace handkerchief into Lee's mouth, then tied another around his face. The boy was then led to the car, shoved into the trunk-which, Lee noted, had holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Tale of the New West | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Within 30 minutes the streets in front of the school were deserted and quiet. Barricades were restored in the area for the first time since last week...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: National Guard Thwarts Student Attempt to Incite School Violence; Ike Attacks Faubus' 'Disservice' | 10/4/1957 | See Source »

...welded metal sculpture, mobiles, folk pottery, and usually an exhibition of the most abstract of abstracts by one young artist or another. Paul has recently come down to earth with a small shop on the street level devoted entirely to ceramics. His personality can be felt everywhere in a quiet, yet intense sort of way as he arranges things or looks up as someone comes in the door...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Paul Schuster's Art Gallery | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

Accordingly, the opportunity coming, like the sky to Chicken Little's head, we went to see Josh White. Quiet and stealthy as people late for church, we tapped at the door. At the command "Come," we pushed...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: The People, Yes | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

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