Word: tranquil
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...occupies by journalists with Western faces and those with Asian features. One man talks with a southern drawl and another writes in Chinese characters. There reporters go through the statements. They try to wring meaning out of the propaganda-filled speeches ---try to evaluate whether today Mr. Lodge seems tranquil or bitter, whether or not the Communists seem to be backing down on a demand. They remind you of the old men at Suffolk Downs trying to decide how to bet from information in the Morning Telegraph...
...least one study belies the widely held idea that women with tranquil marriages cope well with separation whereas those with stormy relationships crack up. Psychiatrists at Washington's Walter Reed General Hospital observed the families of 23 Army noncommissioned officers sent abroad for average tours of 13 months. The investigators found that calm, older women, who seemed most deeply attached to their relatives or rooted to military routines, were often the most likely to give in to sadness and discouragement when their husbands left. Such wives, says Medical Corps Psychiatrist Laurence A. Cove, often seemed to try to suppress...
...adult society respond? Richard Nixon attempted an answer last week at General Beadle State College* in Madison, S. Dak., a tranquil campus that presented little risk of embarrassing disruption, though a few student protesters did in fact stage a peaceful mini-demonstration. The President praised youth's quest for honesty in public and private life. He defended the right to peaceful dissent. But he came down hard on radicals who prefer coercion to persuasion and on faculty sympathizers who "should know better." Said Nixon: "It should be self-evident that this sort of self-righteous moral arrogance...
...spring. None of the candidates for the presidency of France chose to dwell on the fact that just a year ago Paris was a city of barricades and rebel banners, with bloody encounters between baton-wielding riot police and angry students and workers. The speeches, calm, serene, struck a tranquil note, as if the candidates were dreaming of the summer holidays scarcely two months away. Charles de Gaulle, presumably brooding in Ireland over his rebuff in the referendum, no longer cast his long shadow...
...Faculty's unanimity was not all it appeared to be. Behind tranquil debates in the plushly upholstered Loeb Drama Center lay strongly held political differences and hectic Faculty efforts at reconciling groups which did not agree on how to respond to the crisis...