Word: tranquillity
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Normally a tranquil man who loves shooting and fishing (he advises cardinal flies dosed with Vat 69), Father Morrison fired off an appeal to the newspapers: "S.O.S., S.O.S. to all Scotsmen . . . Let us prove that Scotsmen can fight for their precious heritage." To 1,000 crofters of both faiths at a mass meeting. Father Morrison stated the case: importing "9,000 aliens" (4,000 soldiers and their families) would wreak havoc with the livestock, tweed, seaweed and egg-packing industries. Said he: "The range will have to be built over our dead bodies." When the Air Ministry showed no disposition...
...John Foster Dulles could say that the U.S. was not "primarily" concerned. The wider commitment was plain to see in President Eisenhower's last urgent letter to Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion, urging the "utmost speed" in withdrawal but promising to work for conditions "more stable, more tranquil and more conducive to the general welfare than those which existed heretofore...
...score of nascent Prime Ministers have strolled its tranquil two acres. Poets from Sir Philip (Arcadia) Sidney to W. H. (The Age of Anxiety) Auden first met their muse in the hallowed grassiness spread between Christ Church and Merton College and the crew-splashed "Isis" that is the River Thames. To Christ Church dons the explanation for it all was maddeningly simple: Minister Sandys was an Oxonian, yes, but a Magdalen man! The idea was to steer through the meadow the High Street traffic that now thunders past Sandys' old college over Magdalen Bridge. This, of course, delighted Magdalen...
Enjoying the soft warmth of the tranquil summer, the U.S. had still to remember that a cold winter could lie ahead...
...Tokyo, is as big (pop. more than 8,000,000), bustling and gaudily expensive a city (a first-rate geisha party runs up to $60 per person) as any on earth. Yet a few miles outside, Japan goes back centuries to a bygone world of tiny, meticulously tilled farms, tranquil lotus ponds and brilliantly colored shrines and temples. The finest temples are at Kyoto, Nara, where the 1,349-year-old Horyuji Temple is said to be the world's oldest wooden building, and at Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine is set in a fairyland of rugged mountains...