Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, I'm not very anxious to collect. For years now I have been able to state, with quiet dignity, that TIME magazine owes me money. In fact, I have unfailingly so stated whenever the name of the magazine has been mentioned. Listing TIME among my accounts receivable is an asset out of all proportion to the amount of money involved, particularly since I always neglect to mention...
With blood-shot January all too vivid a memory, Lamont Library's late closing hours during last spring's reading period came as an undergraduate paradise. The extended quiet and comfort provided a welcome contrast to the distraction of new New Yorkers and the clamor of old roomates...
Even this expense, officials believe, is too great for a "glorified study hall," especially since the House libraries are so little used. But as exams draw nearer and nearer, seats in House libraries grow fewer and fewer, and, in addition, many students seem to prefer the cool, quiet comfort of Lamont. Library officials have stated that "we would rather have a first-class library with limited hours than a second-class library with longer hours." Their concern is thus evident, as it was when they showed their willingness to cooperate with students in such past matters as Friday checkout times...
...junta consists of Premier Georgy Malenkov ("full of old-fashioned grace"), Nikita Khrushchev ("hail fellow well met"), Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov ("quiet, patient and reasonable"), Lazar Kaganovich ("likes his liquor"), N. A. Bulganin ("handsome and witty"), A. I. Mikoyan ("probably the sharpest and cleverest of all"). All are about the same height (5 ft. 4 in.), and all have the common secondary goal of convincing their own people and the West that the "Stalin terror" is over. But Salisbury emphasizes that the change is only on the surface; their primary goal remains the same: worldwide Communist dictatorship...
...author met her heroine, Frau Maria Altmann, when the old German lady, who was pushing a handcart piled high with furniture, collapsed in the street. By her own admission, Author Faviell had gone to Germany "wanting vengeance," but in Frau Altmann's lined face she saw a quiet human courage that made vengeance seem irrelevant. For the next three years-through a nightmare of cold and hunger, riots, kidnapings and the ever-present Communist pressure-the Englishwoman played guardian angel to the Altmann family...