Word: quiescent
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Thrown ignominiously out of its prize Congo colony, scorned and abused by the world for its policies, and facing money troubles after a decade of opulence. Belgium no longer could contain its frustration. Last week half a million normally quiescent Belgians erupted from their homes, marched in grim phalanxes through the major cities. The more zealous ripped up cobblestones, overturned autos, spat on police. All over the country, workers went on strike and took to the streets...
...port of Aden itself, Arab nationalist ardor still runs high. A total of 1,800 oil workers are out on a strike called by the local Arab Trades Union Congress. Aden's port workers may still throb to Nasser's broadcasts, but it is the now quiescent Imam whom the British worry about. He is the chief threat to the garrison post from which they watch over their Persian Gulf oil interests. Reassured, the British are now preparing to create a second federation in Aden's even emptier Eastern Protectorate, where the British-run Iraq Petroleum...
...believe that the problem of the underdeveloped nations is more lasting, more important for Western civilization than the problem of Soviet-Western differences. There are 1,700,000,000 people that today are living without sufficient food, shelter, clothing and health facilities. Now they are not going to remain quiescent. They are just going to have an explosion if we don't help...
...date, intends to press hard for his new approach with Khrushchev this week. As he said in his TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan in London, "There are millions of people today who are living without sufficient food, shelter, clothing and health facilities. They are not going to remain quiescent. There is just going to be an explosion if we don't help...
...with a new serenity." Pundit Walter Lippman, who had been wringing his hands for years about Eisenhower shortcomings, agreed-more or less-with Reston: "We have seen no such display of energy and initiative since the early days of his first Administration. For years the present Eisenhower has been quiescent, as it were submerged. But what we see now is not a new Eisenhower. This is the old authentic Eisenhower with his liking for large gestures which sweep aside the concrete details that more worldly statesmen and professional diplomats worry about...