Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation room and ordering Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to send the Sixth Fleet toward the warring Middle East in 1967 to protect American interests. During such retellings, Johnson acted as if he could feel the great hulls shudder and begin to wheel around after he spoke a few quiet words. Oh what a lovely...
...resent your attitude that travel in Europe must be expensive to be good. An intimate pension in Florence, an inn on a quiet beach on Mykonos or a quaint hotel in London: that is the kind of place people prefer today. Many American tourists do not care where the Hilton is, and do not spend $10 on breakfast in Rome...
Rich started his career with Manhattan-based Philipp Brothers, then a quiet company (now Philbro-Salomon) of metals traders. He became something of a protégé of Ludwig Jesselson, the company's head. After assignments in Bolivia and Spain, he returned to New York and built the company's lucrative oil-trading department. He made a killing during the 1973 Arab oil embargo, but the company declined to pay the seven-figure commission he demanded and he left in a huff. With partner Pincus ("Pinky") Green, a fellow Wunderkind trader from Philbro, he established...
...realize that letting the Pentagon go off on its own when the debate over Central American policy had become so heated was a blunder. But the National Security Adviser has a penchant for secrecy, and Clark, the Defense Department and the White House apparently hoped to keep the maneuvers quiet until they were well under way, then merely confirm what was happening...
...Ford Escorts moved unobtrusively down a quiet, tree-lined avenue in Restelo, an affluent suburb of Lisbon. One stopped outside the driveway of the Turkish embassy; the other turned sharply, burst through the compound's 3-ft.-high iron gates and jolted to a halt. An armed man advanced on the embassy, wounded a police sentry in a burst of fire and was in turn shot dead by a Turkish security guard. As Portuguese policemen hurried toward the scene, four other intruders raced into the adjacent ambassador's residence and seized its only occupants, Cahide...