Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today was quiet, and around Central High School troops were reduced in number and military precautions relaxed. At 11:25 this morning, the barricades which had been set up around the school were taken down and the guards was reduced to a token force...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 29--What direction the Arkansas integration crisis would take after five days of Army-enforced calm was the subject of speculation here today. Little Rock was quiet, and tired newsmen took advantage of the morning to sleep, while others attended local churches in hope of finding interesting reactions from the pulpits...
...whispered that the English and French members of the jury had oversold their favorites. Morandi, who specializes in painting bottles, was a disarmingly quiet candidate, and his countrymen are inclined to be as modest about their moderns as they are proud of their old masters. More important: no still-life painter now working has a subtler talent for arrangement, texture and tone. Morandi's still lifes carry forward the great traditions of Cézanne...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 27--Last night Governor Faubus compared the calmness in Little Rock with the quiet in Paris during the occupation, and the stillness of Budapest today. Faubus is prone to exaggerate, but there is a certain truth in his observation...
...city editor of the Chronicle, Shrike, slips through West's pages sticking the men about him on thorns; he is a complete sadist, whose quiet, corrosive words prick at Miss Lonelyhearts constantly. Pat O'Brien, tested veteran of countless barrel-bottom films, shouts. Playwright Howard Teichmann has promoted the novel's Shrike, with name changed to Spain, to rank with Miss Lonelyhearts himself, boring more holes in the plot's tight belt, as if to accommodate O'Brien's bulk...