Word: tranquil
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Dorothy Day, a woman of tranquil faith and fierce independence, approached the problem in her usual direct manner. She got up one morning last week, prayed for help to St. Joseph, patron saint of workers, then walked out of the House of Hospitality to persuade the judge to set aside the fine. Outside the hostel, where daily she feeds some 200 to 300 and nightly shelters 60 men and women, a rumpled, seam-faced man stepped from the knot of drifters and pressed something into her hand. "I just read about your trouble," he said. "I want to help...
...Samples were in the chambers of Judge Louis H. Burke to thank him for saving their marriage. Vincent had reformed, is now a steady worker, a family man, and a member in good standing of Alcoholics Anonymous. Geraldine has curbed her bickering tongue, and their home is increasingly tranquil. "It will be the happiest Christmas we ever had," Samples told the judge...
...desires and months of delicate negotiations were concealed in a few paragraphs of turgid prose that lay before the eleven diplomats of the U.N. Security Council one day last week. Its title was Draft Resolution Doc. S-3502. Its fate rested with one man who sat, sad and misleadingly tranquil, behind the name plate of China...
...nights a month. For her part, Maggie was as dutiful a wife as a man could ask for: she usually drove the getaway car for Bobby and his gang. But Bobby was often violently jealous of his wife, and the O'Connors' home life was less than tranquil. Once, after he saw Maggie talking to a man in a bar, Bobby rushed home, grabbed a pair of scissors, and cut all Maggie's and the children's clothes to shreds. In retaliation, the kids took the scissors and cut all the sleeves from Bobby...
After two largely tranquil years in the service, the past eleven months as a military policeman in Alaska, Army Corporal G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 28, long to reign in U.S. military annals as the most famed noncombatant private of all time, was routinely discharged from the Army at New Jersey's Fort Dix. The unwilling storm center of last year's Army-McCarthy blowoff, Civilian Schine planned to take up his chores (for which he drew handsome salaries throughout his Army days) as president and general manager of his father's nation-spanning chain of five...