Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the door a quiet young man was talking about Flemish tiles. "They're very old, and each one is different," he said, looking up from the floor to the walls. The somber group of prospective candidates looked up with him. The walls were covered with Flemish tiles; each seemed different and they looked very old indeed. The young man called their attention to the heavy wood cabinets against the walls as well: "They are also very old," he said, looking down at the floor again...
...Nikita Khrushchev's decision to decentralize the management of Soviet industry (TIME, April 15). In addition, the troubles in Poland and Hungary not only deprived Russia of valuable imports, e.g., Polish coal, but also obliged Russia to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the satellites to quiet their unrest...
With plenty of works in progress but no finished manuscript under his arm, Novelist Ernest Hemingway arrived incognito with wife Mary at a midtown Manhattan hotel for a quiet holiday far from his Cuban finca. Meanwhile, two short stories, the first new Hemingway fiction to be published since The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, were being put to bed for the centennial issue of the Atlantic, which will be out at the end of October. Apparently stemming from the experience Hemingway underwent when he was temporarily blinded after his plane crash in Africa in 1954, the stories...
...quiet morning soon after sunup, a big polyethylene balloon took off from near Minneapolis with a weird apparatus dangling far below it. Suspended in a frame was a reflecting telescope of 12-in. aperture built by Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. Its mirrors were made of quartz so that they would not be distorted by solar radiation, and it had an ingenious device to change the focus slightly during each sequence of 20 pictures. This would ensure that one of these pictures would be in good focus. Another device, assembled at the University of Colorado, had the duty...
Alec Guiness plays a shy and quiet impoverished chemist who invents an indestructible and soil-proof fabric on the sly and manages to cause no small furor in the ranks of British industry and labor, as they try to suppress the invention, the first fearful of depleting the business, the second of losing their jobs. Under all the comic routine is couched quite a powerful satire of the illogical complexities of the modern economy, quite beyond the good will of the participants. Mr. Guiness is at at his very best, never overplaying but by quietly alternating shy smiles...