Word: contentedness
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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.
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...
"If Christ had been put on television to preach the Sermon on the Mount," says British Writer (and former Punch Editor) Malcolm Muggeridge, "viewers would either have switched on to another channel, or contented themselves with remarking that the speaker had an interesting face." Yet Christ is currently much in...
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...
This gesture gave him entree into Radical politics, but in the '30s he contented himself mostly with practicing law, reading history and economics (notably Lord Keynes). He opposed Juan Perón from the dictator's first appearance on the national scene. Frondizi joined Radical Chieftain Ricardo Balbin...