Word: stolidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countries would uphold the embargo rather than risk diplomatic breaks with the Western powers. But would they? "This is obviously an internal affair between Britain and Rhodesia," declared a Lisbon official. "If tankers arrive in Mozambique with oil for Rhodesia, Portuguese authorities will not interfere." South Africa maintained a stolid silence. But there was small doubt where its true sympathies lay. And even though 90% of the refineries in South Africa are controlled by British and American companies, the smaller operators could still easily meet Rhodesian requirements...
High Promise. Last week's impressive demonstrations of precision launchings and splash-downs, flawless electronic communications and computations, smooth orbital maneuvering and stolid endurance, held out high promise for the remaining five flights of the Gemini program. Gemini 8, scheduled for early next year, will attempt to perform the original mission of Gemini 6: docking in space. If the necessary modifications of the backfiring Agena cannot be made in time, NASA will use a hastily contrived "Augmented Target Docking Adapter." One way or another, Gemini 8 will have a target vehicle...
Colby's netkeeper put a hex on Cooney Weiland's youthful icemen Saturday night, and hold Harvard to a 4-4 stole-mate up in Waterville, Maine. Harvard pounded the stolid Maine goalie with 43 goalward slaps, jobs, and fakeroos in a scrambling contest. His damnable mitt kept appearing where most goalies are left vainly pawing with their sticks...
...Stolid Dutch burghers wanted genre scenes, not Biblical pageantry. Terbrugghen did his requisite of martyrs and evangelists, but it is his fleshly sinners that were his daily bread. In 17th century Holland, where drinking, smoking, gambling, even lute playing were castigated, the artist's twaddling codgers, topless prostitutes and leering rakes mime ribald vignettes...
...roses is that South Africa has an oppressive racial policy-a bit of news that seems to have hit Co-Playwrights Howard DaSilva and Felix Leon with tardy impact. Inevitably, the odd interracial couple has a run-in with the local Nazi Afrikaner corps, blond and stolid beasts who are decently venal enough to be bought off. Dore Schary, the old Message Pilot of MGM, has directed The Zulu and the Zayda in a spirit of brotherhood that pretty effectively squelches any possible dramatic conflict...