Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready to kick him out. I'm going to vote no, and it will be the first time." A Briare attorney, a Gaullist, plans to vote against the referendum because he believes "it would be better for De Gaulle to leave now, while everything is relatively quiet, so there can be an orderly transition. If he dies in office, God only knows what will happen." The farmers who live near Briare seem more indifferent than the villagers. Maurice Vanjan, who keeps 50 cows on 50 hectares, says his ballot will be blank. "The referendum," he says, "tries...
Ethel is no longer the prankster she was in days past, when she would string up a dummy parachutist in a tree by way of greeting General Maxwell Taylor, who parachuted into Normandy on Dday. But evenings at Hickory Hill are hardly occasions for quiet conversation. "After dinner, you never just sit around and talk, because she's not comfortable in that type of situation," says a friend. There is always an activity of some sort?charades, games of "who said that?" based on the day's news?or a movie in the playroom by the pool. A recent guest...
...years ago Harvard was very staid and submissive and quiet--and respectful of authority," he said. "In some cases today a little wholesome questioning of authority may be good because the older generation may not know everything...
...civilizations could have made the journey. Heyerdahl and a crew of six will shove off from Safi, Morocco, next month, charting a course through the Canary Islands to Central America, where traces of what seems to be primitive Old World cultures have been found. Until now Heyerdahl kept very quiet about it. "Otherwise," he says, "I would have drowned in letters from adventurers wanting to join the crew...
...Rumanian effort is evident at Galati, once a quiet town of peasants and fishermen on the Danube, where the blast furnaces of huge new steel mills now light the night sky. When fully completed next year, the complex will lift the country's annual steel output from 4,400,000 tons to 6,900,000 tons, almost as much as Australia's production and more than Sweden's. Petrochemical plants are rising at Ploeşti, next to Rumania's oil wells, which until recently constituted the country's only significant industry. In conjunction with...