Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called at the White House, Harry Truman spoke of the visit at his press conference. The President said that Dulles had declined the ambassador's post because he felt he must stay in America and save the Republican Party from isolationism. Dulles answered this partisan crack with a calm statement indicating that the President had not correctly given Dulles' reason for turning down Truman's offer. Said Dulles: "As regards the Republican Party, I do not share the President's concern. The Republican Party is not isolationist, and I see no danger that it will become...
...near-nude M.I.T. man, pursued by five or six more fully clothed M.I.T. men, broke the late afternoon calm of Moors Hall living room yesterday...
...faces and the pattern were familiar. President Bill Green, 78, denied reports that he would retire-as he has for many years. Secretary-Treasurer George Meany, 57, pompously chomping a cigar, was still waiting patiently to take over Green's job. No noisy battles disturbed the convention calm. "We've been around a long time," explained President George Harrison of the Railway Clerks' union. "We know each other too well to get excited." The convention yawned through dull speeches and rubber-stamped everything the executive council and committees offered...
...picture, then. But I cannot rid myself of a feeling that it is not a great picture by several Ganges-breadths. Why it misses greatness is difficult to say, but perhaps it lies in this: the force, the beauty of the novel lies in the deep contrast between the calm flow of Indian life outside and the turbulent rapids inside the adolescent girl. Without this contrast the background is superfluous, even distracting, and the girl's problems are deprived of a setting which gives them power. Renoir certainly does not miss this contrast, but I do not feel that...
...hurricane is a great doughnut of wind and cloud that revolves (in the northern hemisphere) in a counterclockwise direction. The winds that race toward and round the calm, low-pressure center of the storm are fed with air from the high-pressure areas outside the whirl...