Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cowles family picked tough ground for missionary work. In tradition, at least, the nation's heartland has long been indifferent to foreign news, except in time of war. Buzzing gadflies in this calm atmosphere, the Cowles papers go far beyond filling their front pages with stories on international affairs from their hardworking five-man Washington bureau headed by Dick Wilson, 53. Their editorial pages take positions that are unusual for the Midwest and downright surprising for Republican publishers: they have damned the policies of Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, praised Dean Acheson, bemoaned Chiang Kai-shek (a "lonely...
...sunny room at Smiths Hospital, Henley-on-Thames, England, children sat at small tables last week putting colored pegs into holes. Except that the children were psychotics-mostly the scarred offspring of disturbed parents-the room had all the friendly calm of any normal kindergarten. What made it doubly so was the children's custodians, placid-looking young women in their early 20s, who spoke little but seemed unusually affectionate. They sat with their arms around the children, frequently hugged and kissed them. It was no chore to the women; they were all mental defectives, who think...
...reason for calm, Bauer maintained, is that the emphasis on motivational research has resulted in knowledge that has benefited the persuaded as well as the persuader. "It can be argued that the consumer is now harder to reach than ever," he said...
...Gallery, Robert Vickrey's sober portraits of people and places sold so fast (at prices up to $2,500) that the gallery was begging him for more pictures. At the other end of the abstract-realist spectrum, all but three of I. Rice Pereira's cool and calm abstractions ($1,400-$2,300 ), on display at the Nordness Gallery, were sold...
...eerie silence descends as each even day draws to a close. Only an occasional nervous laugh betrays the outward calm of the courageous but tense villagers. They know that, come morning, the fickle, deadly torture from the mainland will begin again with rumble of cannon and flash of fire...