Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They're not vulgar or bold-acting," says one Grosse Pointer. "They are mother and grandmother types-and good ones. Take Mrs. Anthony Giacalone [wife of a top Mafia figure in Detroit's ruling family], she's a quiet, lovely lady. Why, she even contributed $20 to the March of Dimes...
...ranking Mafia wife returns home where a plaque proclaims her MADONNA OF THE KITCHEN. A housekeeper is here today only because the wife is ill. She makes a point of saying that she cares for her own house. It is a matter of pride. "We live a quiet life. It is not our intention to be noticed," she says. "I'm happiest sometimes when they leave my name off the list of charity contributors...
When the German settlement rebuffs the French attack and threatens retaliation, this fragile social fabric disintegrates amid bluster, cowardice, hoarding and panic. Only one man keeps his head: a quiet, boyish geographer (Jacques Spiesser) who reveals an unsuspected flair for command. He supersedes the decent but feckless resident sergeant (Jean Carmet) and brilliantly mobilizes the local garrison...
They began their partnership of terror in 1970 in a quiet research library in West Berlin. By prearrangement, Ulrike Meinhof, then 35 and a leftist journalist, sat at a table pretending to read. Studying near by, under armed guard, was a notorious anarchist she had interviewed in prison and deeply admired, Andreas Baader, then 27 and serving time for the 1968 fire-bombing of two Frankfurt department stores. Baader had won permission from prison authorities to study at the library. Suddenly three people burst into the library and sprayed the room with bullets and tear gas. The escape plan worked...
...author's house during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. The diary became the jewel of the Oxford collection; scholars may have debated its authenticity, but hardly a soul dared suggest that Backhouse himself had written it. Now Trevor-Roper, revealing for the first time the backdrop of quiet scandals that made up Backhouse's life, concludes that the Sinologist was one of the greatest forgers of all time. His memoirs too were made of whole cloth, the lubricious dreams of a suppressed old Victorian...