Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hammarskjold who, in TIME'S own words, is "working for peace with the kind of quiet effectiveness that would win medals...
...Hopper's quiet canvases, blemishes and blessings balance. He will paint an ugly front stoop and the warmth of sunlight on it, or a sooty curtain stirring with the fragrance of an unexpected breeze. He presents common denominators, taken from everyday experiences, in a formal, somehow final, way. The results can have astonishing poignancy, as if they were familiar scenes solemnly witnessed for the very last time. "To me," says Hopper, "the important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling...
...quiet all the talk of change, No. 10 Downing Street declared that Eden would return from Jamaica this week and had no intention of resigning. The reins of government, said Rab Butler, would be "handed back" to Eden immediately, adding with a characteristic nuance that Eden "would wish to face the music...
After the May 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in public schools, most Southern newspapers played up stories of anti-integration violence, but shied away from the more significant story of desegregation's quiet progress (TIME, Jan. 17, 1955). But the Southern press is changing its ways. Last week Don Shoemaker, onetime editor of the Asheville, N.C. Citizen, who heads the nonprofit, nonpolitical Southern Education Reporting Service, said that "objectivity is clearly on the rise" in Southern news columns...
...Them All Together. In Turin, Italy, when police arrived to quiet a family quarrel, they got an explanation from outnumbered Bridegroom Antonio Guglielmone: just before the wedding, his wife admitted that she wasn't a spinster but a widow with two children, then "finally she admitted that . . . she really had three children, not two. Then as time went by she seemed worried once more . . . and there were four children, not three . . . and then five children, not four... I was concerned about the speed of the family's growth...