Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such a quiet "great purpose," which is not the stuff of headlines, the U.S. could contribute to the world a clear and enduring leadership which is not the stuff of Communism...
UNITED NATIONS Extending the "Presence" U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold believes in doing good by stealth. He has succeeded in unobtrusively widening the powers of his office by quiet persuasion in private, and by the courage to make imaginative leaps of authority, which he disguises in dull prose. He also considers his jumps well, and has an instinct for not going too far. Without formal instructions from General Assembly or Security Council, he sent a personal representative to be watchdog (a U.N. "presence," he preferred to call it) to Jordan in 1958, one to Thailand to settle a boundary dispute...
...script, written by Karl Tunberg, and touched up by S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal and Christopher Fry, is well ordered, and its lines sometimes sing with good rhetoric and quiet poetry. The actors, for the most part, play in the grand manner, but with controlled firmness. Actor Boyd carries off the prize with a virile portrayal of Messala, and Hugh...
...field, Sam Huff is an unassuming extravert with a reputation as a waitress kidder, a dislike for liquor (two beers make him woozy), and a quiet determination to get to bed around 10 every night. But the game has left more of a mark on him than the slightly twisted nose in his handsome, square-jawed face. Sometimes he worries that the mean streak he works up for his profession of violence will affect him permanently. "You've got to watch that you don't take it off the field with you," says Sam. "You get guys...
...assigned. By contrast, the United States has traditionally used such irrelevant standards as the size of campaign contributions and long-time political service on the home front in selecting its diplomats. The result is a hit-or-miss system that occasionally succeeds, but more often ends up in quiet failure or conspicuous disaster...