Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until 11:20 the school was quiet. Then an alarm, ostensibly for a fire drill, was rung. The student body filed out of the school, onto the sidewalk directly in front of the block-long cordon. Only one Negro girl was seen among the white students. She laughed and sang school songs during the recess that followed, along with the other children...
Tennis and typing are the University's step children. Every yea the plea is made to further the two activities at Harvard, and just a regularly, the plea is lost in the quiet bureaucracy of the HAA and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...momentous confrontation, set before a backdrop of high feeling and history. The rebellious governor of the state of Arkansas, defying U.S. courts and U.S. law, went to plead his case before the President of the U.S. There was quiet, friendly talk behind closed doors; there were smiles and handshakes for the camera, then politely worded, carefully prepared statements. Through all of these devices the result was clear: the President of the U.S. had flatly insisted that the governor of Arkansas must bow to the law and withdraw from his position of rebellion...
Then Hays went to Faubus, spent a quiet hour talking in the book-lined second-floor study of the executive mansion. By this time Faubus was worn thin under the increasing pressures. He agreed to cooperate fully (but not to capitulate). Brooks Hays called Adams and said that a telegram was on its way from Faubus to the President at Newport...
...eleven years of Janssens' generalship have been marked less by spectacular achievements than by a policy of steady, quiet realism, well illustrated by Janssens' decision to close many of the order's colleges that for centuries trained young aristocrats, instead open colleges in Italy's Red districts. Balancing up the eleven years of Father Janssens' generalship, the delegates may well conclude that the order has gained not only in numbers but in public esteem and within the church itself. Intramural friction with other Catholic orders is at a minimum. The society enjoys the personal favor...