Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrorize the population. Next day newsmen asked the Foreign Ministry's official spokesman if Syria planned a diplomatic protest. Astonished, the official asked who had reported the incident, was told Bizri had. "Well, that's a new one," said the official. The Turkish-Syrian border was sleepily quiet. Turkish forces on the frontier (three armored brigades, three infantry divisions) were in defensive positions, and travelers along the Syrian side of the line saw no evidence at all that the Syrian army was bracing itself for an attack...
...winner: Daniel Bovet, 50, Swiss-born but now a naturalized Italian. One of the research stars of Rome's Istituto Superiore di Sanità, he is a scientist's scientist who has spent a lifetime in quiet laboratories. Though his discoveries have been the basis of countless medical products-sulfa drugs, antihistamines, muscle relaxants-he has never taken out a patent in his own name or made a penny from the commercial exploitation of his findings...
...golden glottis gurgling to a stop? Is there a quiver to those rosebud lips, a beginning of wilt to those poodle-wool sideburns? For two years, lovers of peace, quiet and a less epileptic kind of minstrelsy have waited for Elvis Presley and the adenoidal art form, rock 'n' roll, to fade. But knowledgeable disk jockeys and trade bulletins offer such purists little hope. In spite of previously noted tremors, last week rock 'n' roll looked solid as Gibraltar, and Elvis-with a new stomp-and-holler hit, Jailhouse Rock (RCA Victor)- was perched right...
Despite such quiet programing, there have been occasions of high drama in the history of Vatican radio. In 1938, four hours before the Munich pact was signed, aged (81), ailing Pius XI told the world: "We offer our life, this poor earthly life that peace may win." Two years later his successor, Pope Pius XII, began to stretch Vatican neutrality to the breaking point by using the radio to lash out at Naziism. broadcast sermons to the warring world...
...delivering reports, he met many of the the late Senator McCarthy. Heimler the late Senator McCarthy. Heinler worked in a shoe factory for a while, and then went to the University of Illinois for an English course, where he stayed in a fraternity house. He found the students there quiet, friendly, and had several dates with local sorority belles...