Word: calming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foot, who had arrived declaring that he had "an open mind," pleaded for calm in which Britain, Turkey and Greece could try to unravel the tangle. He was not going to let pride stand in his way. When local officials refused to come to see him at Government House, Foot called on Nicosia's Greek Cypriot mayor in his own home. "Things are bad-very bad," said Foot. "But give me a break and I know we can find...
...show's an nouncer for 19 years. And for the past 20 years, Firestone's National Advertising Manager A. J. McGinness has commuted almost every week between Akron and Manhattan studios to see that everything, including divas' temperaments, functions with pistonlike smoothness. McGinness once had to calm a frightened 17-year-old named Patrice Munsel, making her professional radio debut on the show, with a chocolate ice-cream soda. And recently, McGinness had to "play mother hen to mollify some embarrassed" ladies of the chorus who were undressing behind a flat that was suddenly "flown...
...three-man jury-Lloyd Goodrich of the Whitney Museum, Henri Dorra of the Corcoran, Alfred Frankfurter of Art News-made a refreshingly sober choice for prizes. Top honor and $2,000 went to Edward Hopper for a calm, direct and powerful water color done at Pacific Palisades, Calif. Charles Sheeler took second prize and $1,000 with an architectural construction called Two Against the White, also inspired by a trip to California. The international flavor of the competition was served when England's John Piper took third prize and $750 for an impressionistic backyard-scape called Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. Honorable...
...third day of rioting and demonstrations by Greek-Cypriots. Sir Hugh Foot, the new British governor, appealed for calm in a radio broadcast last night...
...have been timed to coincide with a nationwide outbreak, Sukarno went on the radio almost immediately to announce his survival. "This is my voice, the voice of Sukarno," he said. "I want to express my gratitude to God Almighty that I have been saved from assassination. I urge calm and intensified national security. Let us stick together in our grief. May God protect us all." This done, Sukarno set out to discover who among his myriad enemies had tried to kill...