Word: tranquilization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adams, who knew world political history as few men before or since his time, said that the vice' presidency was "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Jefferson found the post "tranquil and unoffending," assuring him of "philosophical evenings in winter" and "rural days in summer." When Henry Clay, defeated for the presidency, sourgraped, "I'd rather be right than President," John C. Calhoun, just elected Vice President, said: "Well, I guess it's all right to be half right-and Vice President." But it wasn...
...Bobby's aunt, she said, and she had come for him because his mother had suffered a heart attack. Could the boy be released from school to go to his mother's bedside? A nun went to get Bobby, while the woman entered the school's tranquil chapel and knelt in prayer. Down from his classroom, Bobby gave her a long, slow look but, trusting in the wisdom of adults, accompanied her without protest. "I'm not a Catholic," said the woman on leaving, "but I hope He heard my prayers." Replied...
Among this population, against whom a strong racial prejudice is developing in France, the French Communist Party has found violent adherents. Last week les communistes Algériens turned the last hours of Bastille Day, traditionally a gay but tranquil celebration into a riot...
...foreigners, a man and his wife, traveled out of ancient Corinth one day last month along the twisting roads that lead toward the rugged interior of the Peloponnesian peninsula. In a tranquil mountain valley, they came to the village of Kalavryta. When the villagers learned that the visitors were Germans, there were sullen mutterings in the village square. A white-haired woman in widow's weeds glared at the man. "He is one of them," she said. "He must...
...Tranquil Buddha. In a modest white palace overlooking the mile-wide Mekong sits worried 67-year-old King Sisavang Vong, afflicted with gout, but refusing all urgings that he leave his capital. Like his Thai people, the King is a fatalist. In the temples his people lay offerings and burn incense before tranquil, smiling images of Buddha, confident that whatever comes, it will inevitably change, as the mystic circle of life completes itself. It is exactly 500 years since Luang Prabang was last invaded...