Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock the room is suddenly quiet. A group of short, chunky men file into a rear pew: the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, the all-high bosses of Communism, has arrived. There is a short, brief explosion of applause, which ends exactly on the instant, for this is the best drilled and most obedient body of public executives in the world-yet one not entirely incapable of shock...
...Only a week before, in the Wanamaker Mile, he had lost a last-lap wrestling match to Private Freddie Dwyer and while the two were tangling, Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen ran off with Santee's world indoor mile record (TIME, Feb. 14). Thoroughly chastened and uncommonly quiet, Wesley went home to Lawrence, Kans. to train. When the starter's gun cracked for the Baxter Mile last week at the New York Athletic Club games, Wes wanted to be ready to unwind with the race of his life...
...Weight of Concern. At other times, conferences of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers have been quiet family affairs. Australia's Menzies, a veteran of many of them, explained: "We earnest fellows come from the six corners of the world. Winston addresses us ... and after all, that is a wonderful experience. When Winston has finished, he turns round to Anthony and says, 'Would you care to say something?' ^Things go on . .. I make a few statesmanlike remarks . . . And when we have solved all the problems of the world . . . the communiqué will arrive. We will correct the grammar. Then...
...noble hidalgo Don Juan is to be seen nowhere save in the theater. More than ever, man loves his comfort . . . There is no longer a surplus of energy for window-climbing and duellos." Woman, meanwhile, will go to greater lengths than ever to find a husband, "by that quiet and obstinate wish that works . . . magically, like the fixed eye of the snake." As men and women adopt more of the roles and interests traditionally attributed to the other sex, Jung thinks a new relationship between them is developing, based on equal partnership...
...derisive howl: "Traitors! Bandits!" The two men in the lead, one a slight, wiry figure, the other a burly, tousled man, pretended not to hear. But at the doorway the small man turned to the taunters. "Kush!" cried Milovan Djilas, using the word Yugoslavs generally do to quiet howling dogs. Then Djilas, the deposed Vice President of Yugoslavia, and his companion, Vladimir Dedijer, friend and biographer of Marshal Tito, went inside to stand trial for daring to criticize Tito's Communist regime...