Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absolute necessity of having troops in Egypt for the defense of the Suez canal . . . may I ask whether this agreement has the Prime Minister's consent?" There was a roar of delight from the Labor benches; Churchill looked hurt. Slowly he rose, and the House fell quiet. He spread his arms wide and said simply: "I am convinced that it is absolutely necessary...
...House advice (by President Wilson) when Dwight Eisenhower was a first lieutenant, dropped in at the presidential mansion for lunch and came out properly discreet. A reporter, trying a circuitous approach, asked Financier Baruch about the state of the economy. Replied he quickly: "I think I'll keep quiet about that." Then, seeing that such silence might be interpreted as a prophecy of doom, he hastily covered himself: "That doesn't mean I think it's bad." Striding on, Baruch had another afterthought. Pausing and turning to the pencil-poising newsmen, he nodded back toward the White...
...Miss Ada Shockley, 43, who teaches the first grade in the College Elementary School of the Central Washington College of Education in Ellensburg, Wash. A shy, quiet woman, Miss Shockley started her career in a country school at $50 a month. She toted ten gallons of water to school each day, made new, child-sized furniture, decorated the windows with bright cretonne to make school look "homey." Since then, she has spent her life arranging parties for her little charges, leading them through song and play until they are ready for books. Dedicated to the proposition that adjustment...
...Blue Angel (Tues., 10:30 p.m., CBS-TV) stars a quiet, wry, young (26) comedian named Orson Bean who has a happy way with a joke. On a set simulating Manhattan's Blue Angel nightclub, Bean casually introduces a few expert acts (including, on one program, Comic Leo De Lyon, who can whistle and hum two songs at once) and spends the rest of the all-too-brief half an hour in bland comedy. Example: the prizes for a contest run by the National Kumquat Growers' Association - $5,000 worth of sneakers (size 17E), six miles of dental...
...photography is first-class in a murkily introspective way, and the ballerina (Sybil Werden), the druggist (O. W. Fischer) and his wife (Heidemarie Hatheyer) are steadily excellent. There is some quiet kidding of second-string ballet companies, and a thrilling, light-splashed rush through the country in a carriage. But all too often the moviegoer is deafened by the tinkling symbols (e.g., spiders to signify evil thoughts, scales to balance vice and virtue) that clamor in the background...