Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By way of pressing his crusade into Capitol Hill, the President breakfasted (cantaloupe, scrambled eggs and bacon, kippered herring, toast, coffee) with 15 Republican Congressmen. When the small talk amid the table clatter was over, Ike got his serious business off his chest. "These," said he, "are four simple musts...
Students contented themselves with shouting out of their windows, and no more than 75 freshmen, proctors, policemen, and deans were in the Yard at one time. In fact, at the scheduled start of the "riot," the proctors and policemen outnumbered the students.
However, as the time passed and the freshmen contented themselves with talking with the policemen, standing idly in the center of the Yard, or speculating when someone would get the nerve to start the "riot."
Martin's style is unpretentious, but as a fact finder he has few peers. Armed with a tiny Olivetti typewriter, a briefcase full of timetables, and a single suitcase, Martin spent 24 months on the segregation story, patiently persuading his sources-black and white alike-that he was neither...
The literary voice of Rumer (Black Narcissus) Godden is soft, gentle and low, and so are her subjects-sensitive children, nuns, quietly contented families and the timeless tranquillities of India and England. It is always something of a shock when her characters come upon the worm of experience in the...