Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's Charles Eliot Norton professor was born in 1893, a Yorkshireman descended from generations of Yorkshiremen, all farmers. His whole outlook on life has been mellowed by these deep roots; they give him the innately cautious attitude of an English country gentleman. He is quiet, always calm, and reticent--modest to the point of shyness. A friend who has known him for thirty years claims Read is one man about whom no anecdote will ever be told...
TIME [Oct. 12] mutilated veracity with a little piece of fiction masquerading as fact, entitled "Silenced: a Calm Voice." TIME alleged that the late Governor Dan McCarty "set himself to the job of cleaning up after Governor Fuller Warren." This allegation is not true. There was nothing to clean...
ANDREW WYETH was trained by his artist father, N. C. Wyeth, whose illustrations for The Last of the Mohicans, Treasure Island and The Boy's King Arthur entranced generations of children. Less romantic in feeling than his father, young Andy mastered a calm, tidy way of painting landscapes. At 20 he had his first Manhattan show, which sold...
...down," said the North Korean explainer. The P.W. swore at the explainer in hoarse, rasping Korean: "You are a pig and a dog and a descendant of pigs and dogs." He kicked at the explainer's table, and spattered his tunic with spittle. The explainer was still calm. "It is your privilege to refuse repatriation," he said evenly. "Why don't we sit down and talk about it?" The P.W. screamed back: "I don't want to hear a word! I lived in North Korea for five years. I don't want to go back...
...Spanish cape. Before leaving, he asked her to go to Rome with him for a few weeks. Amused, irritated and taken aback, she heard herself say she would be delighted. With Sert she "knew what it was to have a dazzled heart," and for the first time had the "calm and frightening feeling of something final...