Word: tranquil
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Everybody is waiting for the first signs of winter. Up here it is goddamn cold and the wind rips down from the Black and Caspian Seas. Sometimes black clouds scud over the Caucasus. But when the wind ceases and clouds lie tranquil, then comes snow and thick rain and real cold. That is what all these men are waiting for. That, after the second front, is what the whole Soviet Union is waiting...
...Cliveden, overlooking the tranquil Thames, Viscountess Astor, the Tory Party's Munich-era hostess and perennial mosquito, buzzed anathema. Some of it was against Paul Joseph Goebbels, who was gleefully repeating to Russia her statement that the Russians were fighting "not for us . . . for themselves" (TIME, Aug. 10). Most of it was against her fellow M.P.s, the British press and her own Plymouth constituency, who were hopping mad at Nancy Astor. M.P.s hunted loopholes in Commons privileges which would allow them to force Nancy to apologize publicly. The British press labeled her speech "a major political indiscretion." A trades...
With a perfect batting average-three hits in three pictures and an Academy Award nomination thrown in-Teresa quietly pursues her private life on her new husband's walnut-treed, swimming-pooled, press-agent-free acres in San Fernando Valley. If Sam Goldwyn is right, this tranquil double life will not last. Says he earnestly and grammatically, apropos her role in Pride of the Yankees: "She doesn't need much ballyhoo. Far better the public should discover her. They will. She's got it inside, things you can't learn...
Through the hot days in Charlottesville the campus was less tranquil than in other Julys; a new class of freshmen swarmed over it, the first class that would ever remember college as having started not in autumn but in summer. They might also remember that their first days of school coincided with a big palaver held by their elders: University of Virginia's 16th annual Institute of Public Affairs. Some freshmen might even remember a few things that were said...
...Sleep Killer Ophuels, a cinema director in Germany before he fled that country, a clipping of TIME'S June 3, 1940 story, which told how he crooned advice to Hitler on overcoming insomnia, suggested he try counting the number of his victims. "You must have a tranquil conscience," crooned Max Ophuels. "Good night, Adolf Hitler...