Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomore Howie Foye has been making quiet, unspectacular progress behind the front-runners. Far from being one of the leading lights on last year's freshman squad, Foye made the jump to five miles with ease, running the best race of his career to finish fifth against Brown...
...upward mobility based on hard work, has been threatened by the storms of social change They now find it an incomprehensible world of yippies and hippies, riots, crime and inconclusive war, and they long for solutions couched in phrases that they can understand and relate to themselves. Their quiet protest, voiced in tones of dismay and bewilderment rather than anger, has led them to espouse George Wallace. The candidate from Alabama expresses their ideas as though he has read their minds...
...just past 3 a.m. last week when the deafening roar of high explosive split the quiet moonlit night. The blast slammed the Greek tanker Eleftheroupolis against its pier near the Nha Be tank farm southeast of Saigon, Despite the constant allied watch on shipping along the entire 30-mile length of the Long Tau channel, which links Saigon and the sea, a Viet Cong frogman had attached a 100-lb. charge to the vessel's anchor chain. Damage was minor: one compartment was ruptured, but the jet fuel inside did not ignite...
Died. Major General Horst Wendland, 56, No. 2 man in West Germany's Federal Intelligence Service; by his own hand (he shot himself three months after learning he had an incurable disease); in Pullach, West Germany. Quiet and unassuming, "the house father," as his staff called him, was an able administrator who supervised the service's more than 5,000 employees and directed its intelligence training...
...establishes Niko quickly in the second scene and never allows him to fade from view after that. (As in his book for Fiddler, Stein never lets any character slip through his fingers.) When Niko finally forgets pretense, allowing himself to fall in love with the beautiful widow (played with quiet grace by Carmen Alvarez), the transformation is thrilling, as Stein and Cunningham have created someone worth caring about...