Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write that Nixon's first aim in making the speech at the Air Force Academy [June 13] was to quiet criticism of the military. I think you've missed the point. Mr. Nixon said very plainly that the military should not be a "sacred cow," but neither should it be a "scapegoat...
...being tested by at least 13 nations, including Britain, France, and Sweden, as well as the U.S. and Russia. The situation obviously calls for international control agreements. Pending that millennium, the U.S. probably has no choice except to continue investigating potential C-B weapons. But the Pentagon could quiet widespread fears by doing more to prove to the public that its programs are indeed primarily designed for defense and protection. The Army could begin by ending some of the secrecy-and deliberate distortion-that has marred its past record. While full public disclosure is clearly impossible, a good deal...
...Dublin, especially on a Sunday. It may help to fix the type if you realize that Woodrow Wilson and Field Marshal Montgomery were both descendants of Ulster. Picture these men locked in a small country with a bunch of unreconstructed Gaels and marvel that the place is as quiet...
...church that the angry Ulstermen fear so much is a good deal more adaptable than they admit. As soon as the English eased the fierce penal laws in the 1800s, it made its quiet peace with them, and by the 1916 rebellion was a definite anti-revolutionary force. In the '20s, it excommunicated Eamon de Valera for his part in the bloodshed, only to turn up shortly thereafter in full partnership with...
Although it is advertised as a film about student unrest in Paris and Prague, A Matter of Days is hardly the thing to see for ideological inspiration. It is a quiet, sentimental little love story that happens to be set against a university background, a sort of La Chinoise for squares. When a French graduate student (Thalie Fruges) goes to bed with her professor boyfriend (Vit Olmer) for the first time, Director Yves Ciampi actually cuts to an exterior long shot of the light being turned out in the garret -a graceful, old-fashioned touch that is fairly typical...