Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tibet proper and roused their fellow tribesmen in the Tsangpo valley to join the revolt. In Lhasa, monks grumbled at the religion-destroying teachings of the Red Chinese; Tibetans complained at soaring prices and the confiscation of grain and wool. The Reds applied pressure on the Dalai Lama to quiet his people. To an anxious crowd assembled in the Norbulingka gardens, the God-King said blandly: "If the Chinese Communists have come to Tibet to help us, it is most important that they should respect our social system, culture, customs and habits. If Chinese Communists do not understand the conditions...
...Tokyo was quiet again. The royal couple ate an early supper, read the evening papers, watched themselves for a while on TV. Finally, the 80-year-old Chief Ritualist and his wife brought in the four silver trays with the 26 rice cakes that would remain on the bedroom altar for three days to ensure the early arrival of an heir. At 10 p.m., lights went out at the Eastern Palace...
Under Horton's "quiet and imaginative leadership," Pusey said, "the Divinity School has experienced a rebirth." Appointed in 1955, Horton had been a leader in the world ecumenical movement, and Minister of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches. His appointment was part of an effort to promote a more ecumenical outlook at the Divinity School and study of varying streams of religious thought...
...incident-and the tight-lipped manner of Alcorn in his defeat-were indicative of the way that quiet, resourceful Meade Alcorn operated (TIME, Jan. 19) as the G.O.P.'s top political boss. Last week the President grudgingly assented when Connecticut's Alcorn, after 26 turbulent months, offered his resignation (as of April 10) in order to return to his Hartford law firm (Alcorn, Bakewell & Smith) for urgent personal reasons...
...cardinal's purpose was clear: to soothe lingering Protestant fears about nominating a Roman Catholic for President and to quiet a lingering Catholic feeling that Friend Jack protested too much a month ago in trying to clear himself of the religious issue...