Word: tranquillizers
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...think we can look forward to a tranquil world so long as the Soviet Union operates in its present form. The only hope, and this is a fairly thin one, is that at some point the Soviet Union will begin to act like a country instead of a cause...
...here it is very tranquil." Senora Dolores moved from Mexico City when she married her husband six years ago. She found it difficult to adjust to country ways at first--she had never made a tortilla or scrubbed clothes on rocks before--but "You grow accustomed." Her husband won't let her go to the city to see her family because "if I went, I would stay," and he doesn't like her to make friends among the other village women...
While in the White House, Harry Truman once wrote to a music critic who had snickered at Daughter Margaret's singing that the fellow would be needing a jockstrap if they ever met. Now it turns out that advancing age and tranquil retirement in Independence, Mo., did nothing to sweeten the tongue or soften the wrath of the 33rd President of the United States. In a book appropriately titled Plain Speaking, to be published in February (G.P. Putnam's Sons), Truman displays all of his oldtime fire...
...hers was a filial devotion which went beyond her concern for herself. After 15 years of such undeserved suffering, Kieu could reasonably have become embittered. On the contrary, she was no longer her somber self. Although past harm had left its mark on her, Kieu did not resist a tranquil life when, at last, it came within her reach...
Many House secretaries wonder if the extreme crowding can be comfortably absorbed, but Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the deans of Harvard and Radcliffe and the new director of the Housing office, remains tranquil. She is optimistic the crunch will ease within several weeks...