Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian economy. The agreement assures other free-world countries that they will not be deprived of Indian markets, provides India with enough purchasing power to maintain her normal imports of agricultural commodities from Canada, Denmark and New Zealand. As for the Indians, New Delhi was as cool and silent as Indian officials in the U.S. were vocally grateful. Proclaiming that the agreement would enable India to go ahead with its second five-year plan, Indian Minister to the U.S. Harishwar Dayal also pointed up the fact that this form of aid is a two-way street. Said he: "It helps...
Last December Department of Agriculture reporters estimated that Colombia's current crop would run to a record 6,500,000 bags for export. Czar Mejia, who keeps his figures secret, remained silent. But in succeeding months word some how drifted from Bogota to Manhattan's coffee-trading Front Street that torrential rains had cut deeply into Colombia's maturing crop. Roasters and brokers, caught with low inventories and suddenly aware that a shortage of mild beans for blending could be crippling, bid up the price from 63? to 80? a Ib. Colombia's mild coffee, which...
...mountain cave near Subiaco, Italy, a tall, white-haired Englishman with gentle eyes stood in silent prayer. The place was Sacro Speco, where, tradition says, St. Benedict spent years as an anchorite. The Englishman was Historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee, and (aloofly in the third person) he now describes what he felt there three years ago: "Here was the primal germ of Western Christendom; and, as the pilgrim read . . . the names of all the lands, stretching away to the ends of the Earth, that had been evangelized by a spiritual impetus issuing from this hallowed spot, he prayed that the spirit...
Fool's Mate. Kennan's book begins by evoking the grimness of the Russian scene seen at its capital, Petrograd, where at every hand "one feels the proximity of the great wilderness of the Russian north-silent, somber, infinitely patient." Lenin and Trotsky were emerging as the main figures on that somber scene. These agile clever, ruthless and dedicated men-Stalin was still a poisonous penumbra on the horizon of history-were theoretically bent on directing Russia as an ally of the U.S. and the Anglo-French alliance against imperial Germany and Austria. The problem...
...Tall, Silent Type. In North Hollywood, Calif., asked why his redheaded, 6 ft. 2 in. girl friend shot him in the thigh, Pat Comiskey declared it was true love: "She had no other way of expressing herself...