Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, after hours of maneuvering with Tom Dewey (see above), Irv Ives yielded to his strong sense of party loyalty and agreed to run. He has no brown derby, no winning ways, no fiery mannerisms. Although he once taught public speaking, he is only a middling-fair speaker-a quiet man who hides a sharp intellect under the linsey-woolsey coat of an upstate countryman. He has been described (inaccurately) as a Jeffersonian Republican and as a political tiglon, yet few voters know what, specifically, Ives represents-except in the broadest general terms...
...quiet luncheon held at Chequers, their country home, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary...
Thin of face, frame, voice and manner, Watkins is cautious, precise and meticulous. Despite his quiet manner, he has a stubborn quality, has refused to be blown down by such formidable wind channels as Texas' former Democratic Senator Tom Connally and Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen. Last week in Utah, the Senator's father was asked if he thought Joe McCarthy could bulldoze his son. Replied old (89) Arthur Watkins: "Nobody ever...
...superiors to be more restrained, instead chose to resign from the C.Y.O., which was the biggest of his many jobs. Editorialized the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal: "The announcement is bound to cause a great deal of sour speculation and suspicion. [We hope] that the proper authorities will soon quiet the suspicions of those who think Bishop Sheil may have paid the price McCarthyism demands of all who venture to speak out against...
...served as teacher, doctor, judge, superintendent, and, incidentally, weather reporter to the U.S. Government. Her story is full of fascinating detail (e.g., at puberty, Havasupai girls were placed on a bed of heated stones and instructed all night in the facts of life for a wife and homemaker). A quiet, good-humored book about a vanishing life...