Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also have to develop a new kind of pastor, geared to a greater proportion of older citizens and working wives. But this should not mean a tamer type of preaching, he warned: "It worries me that so many of our younger ministers feel that they must preach in a quiet and solemn voice with never a gesture, never a smile, never a change in cadence. It would be a relief if they would hit the pulpit just once...
Mild-Mannered Dutchman. Among his tough-talking contemporaries, Honus was a quiet competitor. But men who tried to take advantage of him learned a hard lesson. In a game against the high-riding Baltimore Orioles, famed as the roughest of them all, Honus was done out of a triple when the first baseman hit him with his hip, the shortstop forced him to circle wide around second and John McGraw on third had time to tag him in the teeth with the ball. "Are you going to take that?" snarled Honus' manager, Fred Clarke. Honus bided his time...
...guest stars, introduces a melange of dog acts, girl singers, acrobats. When a critic called him "Ed Sullivan with talent," Perry observed: "I hate people to say complimentary things and then pull someone else apart in the process. I like Sullivan; I watch him all the time." In his quiet, mannerly way. Perry Como, 43, is capable of considerable firmness. He fights a friendly war of nerves with brash Goodman Ace. his top writer. Explains Como: "When we started the show I was almost in baggy pants and a comedy hat, because Goody thinks I'm funny as hell...
...Americans notice the scientific airmen. Most of those who are stationed near population centers work in ordinary-looking laboratories. Their projects are quiet ones: electronics, meteorology, untangling the scrambled figures that come from field experiments. Some of these are hard to believe. The Air Force Research Center at Cambridge, Mass., for instance, has a program for mapping mountains on the moon, an operation seemingly unconnected with flight on earth...
...disks, shipped in from England, are well-engineered, have quiet grooves and vital sound...