Word: calmed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pakistan's new rulers were as strongly pro-U.S. as Ali, so Washington seemed as calm as Karachi. And as for Ali, now a figurehead Prime Minister, he finally called in reporters and said he was loyal to Ghulam. What would he do next? "I must gaze into a crystal I brought back from the U.S.," said Mohammed Ali, producing a miniature eight ball...
...Toronto. As the color reproductions on the following pages demonstrate, the exhibition's minor pieces and masterpieces alike were made by men who had the skill and will to paint precisely what they saw. The Dutch of that day evidently saw things in sharp focus, with a calm objectivity foreign to subjective 20th century eyes...
...Rajasthanis gathered before the brigadier's funeral pyre. Of the brief time that followed, those who saw it tell two stories: some claim that Sugan, resplendent in her wedding dress, wrenched free from those who restrained her and threw herself into the flames; others, that she sat calm and upright upon the unlit pyre, her husband's head cradled in her lap, while relatives kindled the faggots. "All we know," said the Jodhpur police, "is that the lady died in the fire. Her intention seems to have been a well-kept family secret...
...frame is usually clad in flawless blues and greys; at 61, his once brick-red hair and pencil-line mustache are grey, but his bright blue eyes sparkle like a newly polished car, his smile is as broad as a Cadillac grille. His voice is quiet, his manner calm. But under the Curtice hood there throbs a machine with the tireless power of one of his own 260-h.p. engines...
...behind these overt blandishments the artist's recollection of his past creations and the joy they brought him. In his withdrawal from fame and creation is the basis of his discontent, for the force of learning is barren of inspiration for the artist, and he neither is ready for calm perfection, nor can he create such an atmosphere as Arcadia...