Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France. Its finances back in shape, its economy is healthier than it has been in three decades; its public-with only scattered misgivings-is content to accept the side effects of firm rule in gratitude for tranquillity. The result is an ally acting more prickly in its pride, but stronger...
Konrad Adenauer's troubles might have ended had he been content to let them die down. Instead, he went out of the way to continue his feuding in a succession of interviews in the foreign press. To a Scripps-Howard reporter, he patronized U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter's performance at Geneva ("Dulles would have patched up [the Allied rifts] quicker"), opined that Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan must be persuaded that "when one belongs to an alliance, he must give up some views of his own." But he reserved the roughest treatment...
...does he go on? The psychiatrists have grandly labeled the lovable fraud a borderline schizophrenic with a document syndrome and something like histrionic genius. But Biographer Crichton is content to quote Demara without comment. On the psychology of imposture: "Every time I take a new identity, some part of the real me dies." On the nature of his gifts: "I am a superior sort of liar. I don't tell any truth at all, so then my story has a unity of parts, a structural integrity. [It] sounds more like the truth than truth itself." On the leading passion...
...question now," said one Italian journalist at week's end, "is how much does everybody want?" At least a month of close bargaining among Sicily's eight parties lies ahead. Milazzo, the man with the balance of power, would scarcely be content with anything less than leadership of Sicily's next coalition government...
...Face is content to be a relief pitcher, feels no strain when called in to pitch with the bases loaded. "I concentrate on the hitter," he explains. "There's nothing you can do about the runners. The guy with the stick in his hand is the only one that can hurt you. I just try to get the guys to hit the ball on the ground." Despite his slight build, Face has an apparently indestructible arm. In 1956 he relieved in nine straight games. His specialty is a "fork ball" that breaks crazily...