Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...student, and Francisco Meneses, a husky blacksmith, were buried under huge blocks of ice. Rescuers chopped futilely with their alpine ice axes. "Where is my mother? I want to see her again," the girl sobbed just before she died. Soon afterwards, the blacksmith died and the dark mountain was quiet-except for the chip-chip of the ice axes...
...Despite Yugoslavia's censorship, news leaked out that a new priest is performing the duties of Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac, whom Tito's Communists imprisoned for five years, and who has been restricted to his home village since 1951. At a quiet service, Father Franjo Seper, 49, a tall, thin Zagreb parish priest, was consecrated archbishop and coadjutor sedi datu (coadjutor given to the see). The new title serves notice that the church regards the imprisoned Stepinac as its true cardinal-archbishop...
...frame is usually clad in flawless blues and greys; at 61, his once brick-red hair and pencil-line mustache are grey, but his bright blue eyes sparkle like a newly polished car, his smile is as broad as a Cadillac grille. His voice is quiet, his manner calm. But under the Curtice hood there throbs a machine with the tireless power of one of his own 260-h.p. engines...
...Quixote who insists on fighting for code and country-even though it is yesterday's code of yesterday's officers and gentlemen. When Colonel Nicholson is captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore, he tries to hand over his pistol with an air of "quiet dignity," having earnestly practiced the gesture. But he is allowed no dignity at all: the Japanese order him to build a railroad bridge. Huffing and puffing about the Hague convention, he whips his Tommies into that task with all his narrow heart and soul, in order to set an example...
...brother of chief U.N. delegate Henry Cabot Lodge '23, has run the state in a manner typical of the New England political aristocracy that he represents; he, his charming Italian wife, and their two daughters have participated in a full round of well-publicized social functions, and his quiet, efficient government has made few enemies...