Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Says." No one, of course, had the slightest idea "how long it will last." The marines grimly took over the airport, and on the first night all was quiet. Next morning, when the marines planned to move into Beirut proper, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Robert McClintock plunged into conference with handsome, stubborn President Chamoun, and elusive General Fuad Shehab, 56-year-old chief of Lebanon's armed forces. True to form, Shehab, who had steadfastly refused to commit bis forces to an all-out assault against the pro-Nasser rebels, refused to commit himself firmly to cooperation with...
...quints attend separate English-language boarding schools in the Buenos Aires area and see each other only on holidays. They do not look or act alike. Franco is a shy honor student, and Carlos Alberto is a husky athlete. Maria Fernanda is quiet, Maria Esther a chatterbox, and Maria Cristina somewhere in between. But they feel their special ties. The father, an Italian immigrant who got rich with textile mills and vegetable-oil factories, says the five are a kind of "Mafia," with their own secret jokes and fierce loyalty. The children chatter in Spanish among themselves, speak Italian...
...Army's most publicized G.I. after his amateur gumshoeing for the late Joe McCarthy, could well beam. Unlike his 1953 visit with youthful Sleuth Roy Cohn, when the two sparked "Go Home" headlines for their plan of "inspecting the BBC," Schine arrived almost unnoticed, seemed oddly quiet about his Rover Boy past. Asked a reporter: Does he regret his McCarthy ties? Hedged David: "I'd rather...
...seemed to suit the factory workers, ladies' clubbers and art fanciers of Youngstown (pop. 180,000); so many came on opening night that the rum for the punch bowl ran out. The painting and the other winners also pleased Joseph Green Butler III, the institute's greying, quiet, 57-year-old director...
...Moss is quiet and self-contained. He drives with expressionless calm, seated well back from the wheel. Moss seldom smokes, does not drink, keeps himself fit with long hours in a gym. A superb tactician, Moss often tags along in a preceding driver's slipstream, taking advantage of the reduced wind resistance. To Moss, driving is a "kind of poetry in motion-a feeling of rhythm, of perfect balance...