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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about five minutes after this morning's History 169 lecture began, noises began to issue from the hall. Little interpretation or insight was needed to realize that these noises had a single purpose-to annoy Professor Schlesinger and to disrupt his lecture. One student was sent out to quiet them; he remained missing. Another tried to cope with the problem and was slightly more successful. He returned to report that the disturbance was caused by Lampoon "fools." "Fools" is the word used by the Lampoon to designate those people who wish to join its group; their analysis this morning proved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOLS FOIBLES | 5/3/1955 | See Source »

...first rains of the monsoon showered down upon Saigon (pop. 2,000,000), cooling the weather but not the city's jittery nerves. There were quiet Buddhist ceremonies in Chinese pagodas, a pink and white wedding at the cathedral, and an outward pose of calm. But heavily armed gangsters and cops of the Binh Xuyen sect, in their arsenic-green berets, patrolled the boulevards, ordering traffic, and blockading the city's approaches so that they could control the price and supply of rice. Steel-helmeted nationalist paratroopers of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem were also out on patrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Division & Indecision | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...operation), accompanied by a pert young secretary. "Who's the lady with you?" asked a reporter. Godfrey showed all his teeth. "She's my mother." So saying, he hopped into his black Cadillac, threw the crutches in the back seat and drove off for a quiet weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Ex-Friends | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Twelfth century Japan was a land of serene beauty. Delicate white temples rose out of quiet lakes, and low, clean houses graced the green countryside. But the serenity was an illusion, for the men who ruled this paradise reigned with violence. Gate of Hell, one of the most beautiful films of recent years, reveals both the violence and the calm of Japan bathed in a sea of lovely colors...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Gate of Hell | 4/20/1955 | See Source »

Despite the quiet power of the actors, the rainbow of colors which envelopes the scenes of Japan and the photography which captured them give the film its true distinction. Through the efforts of the director and his color adviser, Gate of Hell proves what few Western pictures have ever hinted: that the camera's eye for detail and motion and the artist's eye for design and color can work together to produce a work of visual as well as dramatic impact...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Gate of Hell | 4/20/1955 | See Source »

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