Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Provisional President López Contreras made two shrewd moves to insure his own popularity, quiet the country. He announced that: 1) the Government would buy the nation's entire coffee crop for $7,800,000, trade it abroad for war munitions; 2) an elaborate public works program would be started with paid workers instead of the customary gangs of political prisoners...
...uses it with discriminating taste and intelligence. To prepare for a role she plays through the entire opera score a dozen times be fore she sings a note. Such painstaking study had its effect last week. Rarely on the Metropolitan stage has a young debutante performed with such quiet assurance...
...model her impersonation of Victoria with sure dramatic strokes when, after her marriage to the tall and handsome Albert, she sees him at his toilet for the first time. "Oh-h-h!" she cries, breathless at the wonder of her maidenly discovery, "you're shaving!" Not even the quiet resolution of punctilious Albert prevents her from embracing him before an open palace window, an act of domestic abandon evocative of certain tender moments in the cinema version of A Farewell to Arms...
...First she had tried thyroid extract but doctors told her it was dangerous. Last summer she took up tennis, horseback riding, mountain climbing-still without dropping a pound. Finally she went to Manhattan's Dr. Gerald Schuman who put her on the successful diet. It was a hard, quiet campaign. Said her attorney: "She refused an offer of $5,000 to endorse a reducing salt...
Fellow 8., hardworking, quiet sort without any particular vices--uninteresting; Fellow 9., extremely pleasant and likeable fellow; Fellow 10., jovial, genial, all around person . . . most hospitable; Fellow 11., quick mind revelling in sophism . . . ardent punster...