Word: stealth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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UNITED NATIONS Extending the "Presence" U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold believes in doing good by stealth. He has succeeded in unobtrusively widening the powers of his office by quiet persuasion in private, and by the courage to make imaginative leaps of authority, which he disguises in dull prose. He also considers his jumps well, and has an instinct for not going too far. Without formal instructions from General Assembly or Security Council, he sent a personal representative to be watchdog (a U.N. "presence," he preferred to call it) to Jordan in 1958, one to Thailand to settle a boundary dispute...
...upheavals have learned to know the heart of Father Pire -"the heart open on the world." In 1938 he set up a nationwide organization to help the poor, during the war ran holiday camps for children who had been evacuated from the cities, and at night served in stealth as a chaplain with the Belgian resistance. Then, one day in 1949. he heard a lecture by a U.S. UNRRA official describing the plight of Europe's D.P.s. "It was such heartbreak," recalls Georges Pire, "such despair that it suddenly seemed to me that there was nothing I could...
Mary Stuart offers no end of bravura and brag, of stomp and stealth, as the play rushes from one emotional exclamation point to another. Since the characters never really draw human breath, they never provide the thrills born of real concern. Mary Stuart has clang without resonance, but it is old-fashioned enough to seem novel, and good enough of its kind to be enjoyed...
Almost by stealth, and angrily denying it meant to do so at all, the French government sought some way to end the 33-month-old war in Algeria, which ties down 400,000 French soldiers...
...shows up on the appointed day, but his girl has been sent away by her wicked uncle and forced into a marriage with a government official. When she and her husband return to Tokyo. Machiko and Haruki come face to face. Is it too late? Never. They meet by stealth. Machiko attempts suicide but is saved at the last moment by Haruki, who begs her to elope. She would, except that she is pregnant. After a passionate farewell. Haruki leaves for a European visit. Machiko promptly collapses and is taken to the home of a wealthy exporter who is also...