Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Patrice Lumumba safely in jail, quieter times might presumably be expected in the Congo. Not so. To Military Boss Colonel Joseph Mobutu's headquarters came an alarming telegram from Stanleyville: DEMAND IMMEDIATE LIBERATION PRIME MINISTER LUMUMBA...
...event, Miss Baez sang with the casual magnificence that is well known to Cambridge audiences. She sings without ever forcing a note, jes' letting that cool voice float out of her sligtly open mouth. Although the humorous songs in the Baez canon are superb; the quieter ones are even better, and Mary Hamilton, which Miss Baez sings softly with very little modulation in volume, was clearly the high point of the evening...
...world's working days and tends to peak at the end of the week. So, the editors reasoned, it would be logical to put TIME "to bed" Saturday night, conduct most of the printing operation (already the fastest of its kind in the world) during the relatively quieter Sunday hours, and get the magazine to its readers earlier...
...year. Twining, after serving the normal two-year term, stayed on for a second at President Eisenhower's urging. When Lemnitzer moves up, probably in late September, his successor as Army Chief of Staff will be Four-Star General George Henry Decker, 58, who is even calmer and quieter than Lemnitzer. "You could set a bomb off under his desk and he wouldn't turn a hair," a fellow officer once said. He, too, specialized in logistics during World War II, but won a Silver Star in combat in New Guinea. Army Comptroller in 1952-55 and later...
Cambridge, by contrast, is cleaner, quieter, and usually a more pleasant place to live. But in spite of all the little diversions of the summer, it can get pretty dull. Even if it only to see a movie or to ramble around Scollay, you should travel those eight minutes to Park Street and take a look at Hell.The lovely banks of the Charles...