Word: mellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hidden under cloth of monotonous hue, your once-broad searching has hurried along the dictated path, looking neither to right nor left. The stern discipline imposed on your inquiring soul must have made insensitive dreams of clouds lolling in luxurious sunlight, resilient grasses, paternal elms and walls of mellow brick. You needed peace, and us, and we needed you, while we were stumbling upon the rocky path...
...shrewd, soft-spoken Confucian. As chairman of the Council, China's mellow statesman seemed to remember the wisdom of the Analects: "Men are born pretty much alike, but through their habits they gradually grow further and further apart from each other." Imperturbable, patient, conciliatory, Dr. Quo sought to bridge the chasm of habits. His logic was simple and overwhelming (when Gromyko asked why the chairman had halted discussion, Dr. Quo answered: "I have no more speakers on my list...
...some places native plants have started to come back and this results in a gorgeous flood of purple morning-glories-it reminds me of a little old cemetery in the U.S. which is mellow and not closely pruned. I can't think of a righter place for my husband...
...military junta was not yet sure of keeping power. As the chanting and dancing in the Grande Rue went on through the night under a mellow tropical moon, the leftish United Democratic Front organized a committee of public safety and demanded a date for popular elections and the reopening of the student newspaper whose suppression by Lescot had touched off the explosion...
...months shaping and making the viola. Primrose told him: "I want quality with power so that the music will come out without an obvious wrestling match in front of the public." Moennig tried to blend the measurements of a Strad and an Amati, to get the Amati's mellow roundness with the greater brilliance of the Strad...