Word: contentedness
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In most respects, the Prime Minister of India was much the same old Nehru after Tibet as he had been before: while granting political asylum to the Dalai Lama, he was still busily placating Peking. When Red China charged that Kalimpong was the "command center" of the rebellion, Nehru at...
The cuts brought a cry from Standard of Indiana that they are "grossly discriminatory." As other importers also stormed over the Administration's move, independent Texas oilmen (who produce more than 40% of the nation's crude output) put on contented smiles. U.S. domestic oil demand is now...
Never once did the British allow themselves to be drawn into the political wrangling. Instead, they contented themselves with a mild statement at the end of the meeting explaining that "our silence'' meant, not agreement with the anticolonial remarks, but only a "desire to preserve harmony." When Guinea...
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.