Word: smoldering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Call for Action. Gaitskell might have broken Conservative unity if he had been willing to echo the demands of 30 or 35 back bench Tory rebels of the "Suez group," who smolder at the British retreat from the Suez, and accuse Eden of weakly appeasing the Arabs. Sitting behind Eden, they too wanted a new Middle Eastern approach: toughness and force. But Gaitskell refused to "go their way," and closed with a rousing peroration-"There is a desperate need at the moment for a lead which will both rally democratic forces and restore unity ... I hope the government will give...
Poet Donald Hall, 27, has not yet unseated the great oldsters, but with his very first book, he has made a solid seat for himself. Exiles and Marriages has neither the poetic blaze of Dylan Thomas nor the suppressed smolder of Robert Frost, but it has its own true tone composed in almost equal parts of intelligence and imagination. Like most good poets, Hall knows that. Life is hell, but death is worse. And it is possible that even in an age of anxiety he puts on the hair shirt of guilt more often than is strictly necessary ("I wear...
...time when East-West hostility has been more subdued in U.N. debates has been the dominant fact of the U.N.'s tenth session. In their eagerness to declaim against colonialism and race discrimination, the Arab-Asians have not always bothered to be responsible, and Western delegates smolder at a nation like Yemen attempting to pass judgment on someone else's devotion to liberty and progress...
...that quickly spread to three other buildings. In all, 40,000 barrels-equal to 8,000,000 fifths-of Good Old Guckenheimer, and Bourbon Supreme and other brands were destroyed. Firemen stood helplessly outside a ring of flames so intense that a coal pile 100 yards away began to smolder...
...Churchill was not the man he had been ten years before. His shoulders were rounder; his jowls hung looser beside his bulldog jaws. But his step was still springy, and under his beetling brows his eyes could still smolder and twinkle with their old fire. During the last years of his eclipse, old friends and enemies alike had noticed in Churchill's speech a tendency to slur and meander, but in the heat of this latest campaign, with victory once more within his grasp, the old leader gave no sign of such deterioration...