Word: simmering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, there was dismay-and growing anger. President Johnson refused to back down. Annoyed U.S. officials raised the possibility that Chiari might not have intended to let the crisis simmer down, that the so-called "agreement" was merely a maneuver to put the U.S. in a bad light and bolster the Chiari party's chances in the May 10 elections...
Other churches may simmer with doubts; the Salvation Army serenely lives by its traditional view that Christianity can be spread best by self-sacrificing example, that a strictly disciplined Army is the way to do it, and that the Army should preferably be commanded (despite its worldwide growth) by a General from Great Britain. Last week its 49 territorial commissioners closed their door to all out siders and in four ballots chose Scottish-born Frederick L. Coutts, 64, for the job first held by William Booth (1865-1912), later by Booth's son Bramwell and his daughter Evangeline...
...Wallace Affair continued to simmer at Yale University yesterday...
...gibes at: the U.N. ("The worst catastrophe that has hit the free world since World War II ... Let's sever relations with all those hypocritical blackmailers"); the Alliance for Progress ("In five years there will be a thousand more millionaires in South America, in ten years this will simmer down to a few hundred multimillionaires ... all of which is your money"). And finally: "Why do newspapers dignify Khrushchev with the title of Premier, Castro with the title of Premier or Doctor...
...oceans behind as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip toured their sunnier Commonwealth lands Down Under on a 40-day, 30,000-mile trip. It was the first time in nearly a decade that far-off Fiji had glimpsed its Queen. Elizabeth, looking cool as ever in the 105° simmer, responded by quaffing a bowl of kava, the muddy national beverage made of mashed roots. Then, before boarding the royal yacht Britannia for the cruise on to New Zealand and Australia, she bowed to accept the traditional bouquet from one of her barefoot subjects, while others on a nearby British...