Word: contentedness
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Perhaps because the train ride to Cornell will be tiring enough itself, Coach Lloyd Jordan contented himself and the 36 varsity players by trying passing and running series, but reserving blocking and tackling work.
∙ The threads of such individual testimony weave larger truths. First and clearest of these is the fact that, except for the morbidly pleased ex-Nazis and ex-Fascists, the only Europeans who discuss the Wisconsin Senator with contented smiles are the Communists.
¶ Chadwick and an aide methodically read excerpts from the Army-McCarthy hearings as evidence that McCarthy had urged Government employees to violate the law by turning over to him classified documents, and that he had, in fact, on at least one occasion, received and made use of such information...
One of the fertilizer chaps who have been a constant trial to Archbishop Fisher is that gaitered fellow traveler, Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury. Foreigners are constantly confusing the dean with the archbishop. In dealing with the Red Dean, Archbishop Fisher has mainly contented himself with humor, e.g...
¶ "American literature and poetry are being killed by our mechanical civilization. We Americans once had the beautiful dream of every man's being free. What happened to that dream? . . . We failed in that we forgot the needs of the rest of mankind, perhaps because we are too self...