Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, as the conference began in the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street, only four of the eight Commonwealth Prime Ministers originally invited were on hand. Canada's St. Laurent, for years a quiet voice of moderation at such get-togethers, had just resigned office and been replaced by Tory John Diefenbaker (who turned up on schedule). Racist South Africa's Strydom refused to come for "personal reasons" which many ascribed to an unwillingness to sit down with-or to be photographed with-the new nation of Ghana's Negro P.M., Kwame Nkrumah. New Zealand...
...pale blue eyes took a solemn oath: "I swear to serve Her Majesty truly and faithfully in the place of her council in this Her Majesty's Dominion of Canada." Then John George Diefenbaker, 61, bent to kiss a Bible, intoned, "So help me, God." Thus, in a quiet ceremony, Canada's 13th Prime Minister since Confederation (1867) took office last week...
...court now has venue in such overseas cases. -Should Mrs. Covert and Mrs. Smith-and others like them-be turned over to the countries in which they committed their crimes? That answer would raise such a row as to make the noisy case of Specialist William Girardt seem a quiet thing indeed. Or are Mrs. Covert and Mrs. Smith answerable to no force of justice? Discussing the decision with other officers last week, a top Pentagon lawyer joked grimly: "Watch your wives, boys, that...
...days it was uncannily quiet, then at midnight the blacks hit back with an animal roar. Propelled by a rumor that their Fignole had been put to death, they burst out of the slums, put the torch to eight buildings, sacked a government warehouse. Truckloads of soldiers rolled up, sprayed the wailing, raging rioters with gunfire in the light of the flames and machine-gunned their flimsy shacks. Trucks loaded with prisoners taken at bayonet point rolled off to the jails, and the morgues of Port-au-Prince were full...
After World War I a whole generation of architects and painters, in search of a new style, flocked to the standard of Mondrian's Neo-Plasticism. British Painter Ben Nicholson made a pilgrimage to Mondrian's quiet, immaculate Paris studio overlooking the Gare Montparnasse railroad tracks, likened it to "one of those hermit's caves where lions used to go to have thorns taken out of their paws." U.S. Sculptor Alexander Calder saw the bright rectangles on Mondrian's walls, went home, set the cubes in motion by creating his first mobile. Now, 13 years after...