Word: placid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moral Sanction. Not until the next afternoon did the dark threat of war with the Russian volunteers simmer down. Russia's Bulganin wrote notes to Britain's Eden and France's Mollet in more placid phrases. Nasser's Egypt announced that it had no imminent need of Soviet volunteers after all. The U.N. police force moved into the Suez in sky-blue helmet liners, men out of faraway places clothed in the weighty moral sanction of the U.N. General Assembly (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...power that is already legend. In one of the repertory's most strenuous roles-Prima Donna Lilli Lehmann called Norma tougher than all three Briinnhildes-the Callas voice rose from her slender frame with dazzling endurance. No doubt, other great operatic sopranos can coax out of their ample, placid figures tones that esthetes call more beautiful. But just as the greatest beauties among women do not usually have flawlessly symmetrical features, the greatest voices are not characterized by a flawless marble perfection. Callas' voice and stage presence add up to more than beauty-namely the kind of passionate...
...Warnings. The Soviet leaders had known for months that they were in trouble in the satellites. Stalin's ruthless economic exploitation strained the satellite regimes beyond endurance, and generated layers of explosive discontent beneath the placid surfaces, particularly in Poland and Hungary. The strain could not be kept up, either in Russia or the satellites. Out of that realization came Russia's new course, which began with Malenkov, and then (after a retreat) was continued by Khrushchev. Hoping to win popular allegiance, Khrushchev, as the head of a gang that rose to authority under Stalin, delivered his famous...
...father-and-son relationship became even closer after Margaret McTague Wagner died in 1919, when young Bob was just nine. Old and young Bob hiked together in the Lake Placid woods, made the first of Bob Jr.'s seven trips to Europe, traveled together on political business to every nook and cranny of New York State (Bob knows upstate New York as do few city politicians and-more important to this year's Senate campaign-upstate New York knows him). Recalls Wagner: "Sometimes Father would show signs of fatigue as we'd ride along. But the minute...
...Need Your He'p." As the campaign party moved through Los Angeles and San Francisco, Estes Kefauver seemed as placid and happy as ever-but inwardly he was beginning to boil. Campaigning with Adlai was all right, but the closely timed schedule sort of cramped Kefauver's style. He wanted to get out by himself and start beating the bushes, taking all the time he needed to shake every hand he could find. He means to do everything that energy and ambition can accomplish to win the election. The Vice President's chair is not quite what...