Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The British had always complained that they could not negotiate with the exiled Makarios, "because he kept upping his demands." But when Makarios finally dropped his biggest demand, enosis (union with Greece), the British decided that they had Makarios and the Greeks "on the run," and seemed contented to leave...
Happy, contented students are quiet students, and the Administration's policy toward undergraduates has always been pacifist. The violence of student riots shakes the gentleman tradition of Harvard to the core, and disturbs University Hall--especially the Deans, because Deans dislike noise.
Victory, But . . . Moving with the rubber-ball energy of a nimble fat man, Khrushchev mounted the red-draped platform opposite the power station. "Dear Comrades!" he cried, and launched into the usual speech of glowing praise. For writing "a glorious new page," the workers were decorated collectively, then and there...
On becoming O'Neill's wife (as she did soon afterwards), Agnes automatically became his leading lady as well. Their joint act swung endlessly between tragical melodrama and slapstick farce, was happiest and steadiest whenever they left Greenwich Village behind and settled in Provincetown or New Jersey. Then...
Two days later, after the Soviet press described the noisy demonstration staged by Hungarian refugees outside the Park Avenue offices of the Soviet U.N. Delegation in Manhattan, U.S. embassy officials sighed and phoned the Soviet Foreign Ministry to demand additional police protection. Sure enough, two hours later, another 2,000...