Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lawyer by training and a resourceful negotiator, Christian Socialist Gorbach symbolizes his country's mellow talent for compromise and conciliation; after Dachau he urged a forgive-and-forget attitude toward ex-Nazis not guilty of specific crimes. (" 'Good Lord,' I asked myself, 'how often shall victory and persecution alternate with each other?' ") But last week even Gorbach's conciliatory skills could not budge the U.S. from its stand opposing Market entry of neutral nations...
...Japan's pocket paparazzi crawled all over one another for a better shot. In the eye of the storm at Tokyo International Airport, the dapper figure stood unruffled, not even clenching a tiny fist. "Too much has been written about me being difficult and obstinate," crooned a newly mellow Frank Sinatra, 46, on the first stop in a two-month world tour to raise money for children's charities. "There's no new Sinatra. The difficulty has been on the other side." To prove it, Frankie actually chatted amiably with "the other side"-newspapermen-explaining that...
...nose. His conservative suits are usually rumpled and flecked with tobacco from the pipe that seldom is out of his mouth. Barth is a Calvinist, but not a gloomy one; at home he speaks kindly to large dogs and small children (in guttural Swiss-German), displays a mellow, Dutch-uncle patience with puzzled students. In conversation Barth is full of wisecracks-some pleasantly pixy, some theologian-arch. Once, asked by a stranger on the trolley car if he knew the great Karl Barth, he replied: "Know him? I shave him every morning...
...great Secretaries of State,'' Acheson hailed his "beloved chief" as "a Yale man in every sense of the word,'' reminisced admiringly that "in the Truman Administration you often got shot in the front but never in the back." Summed up Acheson midway in the mellow proceedings: "Life bubbles out of this man like the spring of eternal youth. He is charged as White Rock never...
...slowly and painfully by water jets and scraping tools inserted through the cracks. Then the outside surface was brushed, baked in an oven and treated to cure blisters and a surface condition that Greek archaeologists call "bronze tuberculosis." At last the kouros acquired a patina almost as soft and mellow as the one that first attracted Connoisseur Sulla, and the young man looks much as he did when he stood in some ancient temple. His grace and balance, his strength mixed with beauty, give the ideals of the Greeks one more victory over time...