Word: tranquilizing
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...government showed its unease by relaxing for the moment its word war with the U.S. President Osvaldo Dorticós, a reliable echo chamber for Castro, spoke about repairing relations with the U.S. Castro himself struck an unaccustomed note: "Perhaps by temperament many of us like battle more than tranquil life. Nevertheless when we have on our shoulders a responsibility like we have today, we strive to be above all passions." Brother Raul chimed in: "It is not our desire to be at war. One day we will see these weapons converted into plows...
Verdi: Requiem (Leontyne Price, Jussi Bjoerling, Rosalind Elias, Giorgio Tozzi; Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Society of the Friends of Music, under Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor, 2 LPs). A clean-lined, beautifully balanced and honest version, full of tranquil breathing space. The performances by Tenor Bjoerling, in his last, full recording role before his death, and Soprano Price, at the incandescent top of her form, stand out as stunning achievements...
...money, and Mother Carrie frequently supplemented their income as a part-time waitress in the Coburn Hotel, as a clerk at the Green Brothers' 5 and 10? store or a pieceworker in a local shoe factory. There was never any lack of necessities, though, and in the tranquil years before the First World War, the Chase youngsters had a pleasant, homespun childhood. At Christmas the family went out in the country in George Chase's buckboard and cut their own spruce tree, decorating it with popcorn and cranberries and cheesecloth bags full of oranges. "Our Christmas presents were...
...colonize as it is to clear out of its colonies is justifying itself in a manner intolerable to Premier Eyskens. The Premier regards Lumumba as the worst type of new nationalist leader, and Tshombe as a nice, cooperative sort of chap whose policies seem likely to keep everyone perfectly tranquil...
...struck by a bolt of lightning, and ever since he has lain paralyzed, sweating and gasping with the effort to say one word, syllable by agonized syllable: "Adonai"-the prophet's word for God. "And when he had finished this entire word he would re main tranquil for an hour or two until the struggle again gripped him and he began once more to open and close his mouth...