Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eight days before, in Buffalo, the old century's President William McKinley had been shot by an anarchist at. an international festival of peace and commerce, and now McKinley was dying, the third U.S. President to be assassinated in 36 years. Theodore Roosevelt had made a quiet point in a note to a friend: "It was in the most naked way an assault not on power, not on wealth, but simply and solely upon free government, government by the common people, because it was government and because it yet stood for order as well as for liberty...
...health grew poor. He was now blind in one eye and half deaf. He would try summer evenings to be quiet, sitting on the porch with Mrs. Roosevelt beneath the stars, watching the lights of the Fall River boats glistening on Long Island Sound-but into the Trophy Room at Sagamore Hill the nation and world kept crowding at the rate of 2.000 or 3.000 letters a week. Theodore Roosevelt had said: "The world has set its face hopefully toward our democracy, and. oh my fellow citizens, each one of you carries on your shoulders the burden of doing well...
...North Africa early in World War II to persuade the proconsuls of Vichy France they must not seriously oppose the impending U.S.-British invasion. After the war, he played a leading role in the settlement of the Trieste dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia. Late last week, with the quiet assurance of the expert troubleshooter, Murphy conferred briefly with U.N. Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold, then set off for London to talk with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Britain's "good offices" representative, Middle East Expert Harold Beeley. Though the French insisted the discussion must be limited...
...even Berle could erase the image of Berle. Said Technical Director Bob Hanna, who worked Berle's first TV shows ten years ago: "He really hasn't changed. Only he doesn't have the whistle he used to wear around his neck to get everyone quiet. He's an old ham-the minute he gets an audience he starts performing." During rehearsal breaks Berle clowned brassily. "Look," he exclaimed to the crew, after the first run-through, "I did it all without a Teleprompter." He half-sprinted from set to set, waving technicians aside with...
...quiet them, the Japanese last October promised to cut back future imports to the 1956 total. It was too late. Before the Tariff Commission. U.S. makers of stainless steel flatware pointed to the fact that 558 workers in their own small industry of 21 companies had been put out of jobs, though total employment of 2,522 was still above what it was before the import upsurge. The U.S. makers wanted stainless-steel imports from all countries slashed to 10% of the current total. Instead, the Tariff Commission recommended duty boosts to President Eisenhower that would raise Tsubame prices...