Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blame if a general war broke out in Asia. China specialists in official posts echoed the line. "The British government sees no papal infallibility about MacArthur," snapped one British diplomat. Peevishly he denounced the general's recent visit to Formosa as "flatfooted diplomacy." The outcry muffled the quieter misgivings, mostly among Conservatives, about the wisdom of the government's China policy...
Then Warren Austin tried his hand. The week before, Austin had been flamboyant in gesture and voice. This time, on the advice of his aides, he held himself to a quieter, lower and more effective pitch (which also came across better on television). The chamber was tense and hushed as Austin spoke. All the faces around the Council table (except those of the Russians and the long, smart-aleck face of Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler) looked pleased; by the end Secretary General Trygve Lie wore a wide grin. Said Austin...
...Cherbourg, where the American Importer was unloading the first shipment of arms to France, things were even quieter. A drab little female Communist turned up in the rain at the stevedores' hiring hall to hand out some leaflets urging the dockers not to unload imperialist weapons. A man in a raincoat tried to make a speech. The dockers paid no attention. They had already discussed the issue; only 21 of Cherbourg's 415 dockers had voted against working the ships with U.S. aid. "Cherbourg's example," said Defense Minister René Pleven as the last...
...sister right from the start," says her mother, who has since remarried and lives in Hollywood not far from Betty. "She was always in my lap, always after affection. She would stand on her head, do cartwheels, yell or do anything to attract attention away from her quieter sister." As the girls grew up, Betty envied Marion her more luxuriant hair and her pretty face...
Pink-cheeked, blunt Richard C. Patterson Jr., who had served three stormy years as U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia, looked forward to a quieter time when he took on his new diplomatic assignment to tree-shaded Guatemala City. That was 17 months ago. Last fortnight, weary and out of sorts, Patterson was back in Washington, and the Guatemalan government was asking for his recall on the ground that he had intervened in the nation's domestic affairs.-The State Department insisted that Patterson had merely flown to the U.S. for a medical checkup. But as soon as the ambassador...