Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negotiating process, and for the purpose of formalizing agreements already arrived at, rather than at the beginning and as a means of starting the wearisome process of accommodation ... It is not the hectic encounters of senior statesmen under the spotlight of publicity which we need; it is the patient, quiet, orderly use of the regular channels of private communication between governments...
...educationally-praised Westchester County, N.Y., really believed in this dichotomy of upbringing; certainly in her own school, which, many parents believed, was run by the PTA, she did not practice it. But her remark indicates a separatist view of the parent-school relationship which many educators, in their quiet, undisturbed hours, visualize as an ideal one: the school free from parental interference, at liberty to introduce the subjects it wishes and the textbooks it chooses, without the twitching nose of the community pressing against the window pane. It is this way with the best private universities; wouldn...
Anderson's first quiet triumph was a close relationship between the Administration and the jealously independent Federal Reserve System, which controls U.S. bank-credit levels and was once openly at war with Harry Truman's Treasury Department, and continued to keep aloof in George Humphrey's day. Anderson persuaded Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. to drop around for informal sessions with the President, Anderson, Raymond Saulnier, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and Presidential Adviser Gabriel Hauge. Thus, without binding Bill Martin, the Administration had its first regular forum for voicing...
...tails, the visitors played "Incandescently," reported New York Times Critic Howard Taubman. The first-night audience stopped applauding only so that the orchestra could play another selection: an intense Strauss Don Juan, a powerful Beethoven Seventh Symphony, a rare performance in Russia of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's Quiet City. And they went wild after the orchestra's richly sonorous playing of Mussorgsky-Ravel's Pictures from an Exhibition...
...this century, Argentina's navy fired in anger at a foreign target-maybe. President Arturo Frondizi called a press conference at the Casa Rosada to announce the news. The President disclosed that an Argentine squadron had sighted a periscope while on fleet exercises in Golfo Nuevo, a quiet Patagonian bay, and carried out four depth-charge attacks when the sub ignored the warning to surface as required by international...