Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...students felt that such a rule was very inconvenient, and that it did not accomplish the purpose intended," read the official statement from University Hall. The guest book was retained in the revised plans, and so was requirement of master's permission. For the next five years, all was quiet, relatively, on the parietal front...
...actually worth the time and energy of students involved and the money of the Council. Near failure of some of its projects--most notably, the purchase card plan--and a general lack of brilliant accomplishment in any field, at first seemed to doom the NSA to an early and quiet death here...
...morning there was an attack in company strength on the northeast side of Chunchon. We ordered the rest of the civilians out of the city. Then there was a diversion attack on the south side, perhaps no more than a platoon. Then it was quiet and we thought we could probably hold out until the 31st arrived. But soon the main attack...
...Indo-China with "provocative attacks on Chinese territory." Warned the Reds: "Our border troops have been instructed to hold the frontier firmly and to deliver counterblows to the provocateurs." In Moncay, the only remaining French-held outpost on China's border, TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs reported an ominous quiet...
...seem out of place amid the somber rumblings of the London Times's editorial page. But generations of Britons have learned to expect just such things in the Thunderer's "fourth leader," i.e., the item usually fourth in sequence on its editorial page, an unfailing source of quiet, literate, gentle humor. Last week, for the second year in a row, the Times published a collection (Fourth Leaders from the Times; the Times Publishing Co., London; 8/6) of the year's best work of its anonymous editorial writers. Covering everything from stamp collecting to new arrivals...