Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collar nor drive a pickup truck, I thought perhaps Schickel had merely missed me in the overall picture of Mr. Eastwood's audiences. But I can't believe that he never noticed any other women in those long lines outside the theaters. The Eastwood image of strong, quiet masculinity turns on a large female audience, even here in suburbia...
Union and Harkness As a graduate I am amazed but pleased to read your strong support of "quiet, scholarly Union College" [Jan. 9], lately the victim of hockey coach Ned Harkness's most recent sports blitz. The college's president made his first error in hiring a man whose coaching history reads like a Nazi blueprint for conquest...
...fire lately for partisanship in its appointments of federal judges and prosecutors. Bell suggested that Carter's decision might have turned on a simple affinity of temperament. "McGarr is a trial lawyer and has a more dominant personality," said the Attorney General. "Webster is given to being a quiet person...
...essays, Highet analyzed the West's debt to ancient Greece and Rome. During three decades at Columbia University, the Scottish-born scholar (he became a U.S. citizen in 1951) won a devoted following by his stirring, animated classroom style, confirming his dictum that teaching does not need "quiet, weak men who want to creep into some little niche...
Laskey Bell was studious, quiet; his father jeeringly called him a "clerk," and that's what he became--a clerk in the Osborne Lumber Company, jeered at there by his boss Eddie Osborne because he blushed at the racy calendars Osborne hung on the wall of the office they both shared. Thirty years later, when Osborne came to him for a loan that would enable him to move into the expanding natural gas industry of the Kanawha Valley, with the promise of a full partnership, Laskey Bell set a further condition--he wanted Osborne's daughter's hand in marriage...