Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threat to halt work on the canal, which would bring down on Nasser's head the wrath of the U.N. and the U.S. A British visitor who called on the strongman last week reported: "Colonel Nasser told me the only thing he wants now is a bit of quiet." He might find it hard...
...Quiet Way. Last week, with the blessing of plant managers and union shop stewards, Potter, Reed and 20 fresh-faced fledgling evangelists moved from factory to factory in the area, pep-talking, chatting, leading discussions. After factory closing time the crusaders made house-to-house calls among the 75,000 people of the area, announced as doors opened: "We'd like to talk to you about the difference Jesus Christ makes on the job." This week they are holding a series of evening meetings in a local Baptist church (chosen for its location rather than denomination) which are addressed...
...Lord Nelson's Ghost. In quiet, refined leisure, the evening passed. The dinner party of 40-odd guests proceeded to a pinepaneled dining room after Sir Christopher Wren, where the courses were served on Royal Worcester blue and gold, Chelsea, Derby and Minton porcelain. Then the ladies floated to the French salon on a cloud of chatter, admired the companion-piece oval Boucher paintings as they gossiped. The gentlemen warmed their brandy in the Lord Nelson room, surrounded by Elizabethan paneling that Nelson himself had admired when it was on the walls of a bedroom in the Star Hotel...
...wheeled in, sat uncomfortably fingering a water cup, waiting for the roll call. But not even Neely's arrival in a wheelchair, nor the appearance of Adlai Stevenson in the gallery, could shift the glow of a glorious moment from Frank Lausche, as he sat poised and quiet in an end seat, an aisle's breadth away from Republicanism...
...scenes, Lawrence has managed to bring fresh drama to those he found irresistible, e.g., Washington crossing the Delaware River, which he shows as a series of crowded boats in muted greens and browns, covered and muffled against the bright blue water to capture the quality of "violence, but a quiet feeling as well...