Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humphrey's Georgia plantation. Because Humphrey is Ike's friend and a top Cabinet figure, his hair-curling statements called for an extra-strong presidential rebuke if the U.S. was to believe that it was being taxed for an honest-weight budget. Instead, Ike decided to smooth things over, seemed almost to be agreeing with Humphrey when he remarked at his own press conference that if Congressmen could cut the budget, it "is their duty to do it." "I'm witk You." That was all the slashers needed. Before long, White House staffers were wringing their hands...
...dominated Israel from 198 B.C. to 141 B.C.) or the Romans (from 63 B.C. on). This one problem provides a perfect example of the kind of puzzle the scroll scholars are up against. The Kittim, according to the scrolls, are "swift and men of valor in battle." go "over smooth ground" and "trample the earth with their horses and with their animals; and from afar they come, from the coasts of the sea." They "sacrifice to their standards, and their weapons of war are the object of their worship." Exponents of the theory that the Kittim are the Syrians...
...scholar who thinks the Romans are the Kittim renders the "smooth ground" as "liquid plain," i.e., water. A scroll statement that the Kittim horsemen "fly like a vulture" is connected by the pro-Roman faction with the Roman eagle. The question of offering sacrifice to the standards is not as clear an argument for the Roman identification as it seems at first; it is doubtful whether the legions actually offered sacrifices to their standards before the time of the empire...
...does not sufice, he believes that a therapist should keep in communication with the crew by microphone and loudspeaker. Ever-present and all-hearing, he will watch from disant earth for the first warning signs of a psychological storm-to-come. By the technique of group therapy he can smooth ruffled feelings and try to keep peace on the spaceship all the way to Mars...
...visiting Anglican Priest Michael Fisher. When Father Beaumont performs it in his own church, he knows just the kind of combo he wants: a small, zippy dance band, perhaps with some of the gutty quality of a Louis Armstrong. Guy Lombardo, he feels, would be entirely too smooth...