Word of the Day (Assuage)
Assuage
as·suage
[əˈswāj]
Verb :
make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense:
“the letter assuaged the fears of most members”
Synonyms: relieve · ease · alleviate · soothe · mitigate · allay · palliate ·
abate · suppress · subdue · moderate · lessen · diminish · reduce
Antonyms: aggravate
satisfy (an appetite or desire):
“an opportunity occurred to assuage her desire for knowledge”
Synonyms: satisfy · gratify · appease · fulfill · indulge · relieve · slake ·
sate · satiate · quench · check
Antonyms: intensify
Origin: Middle English: from Old French assouagier, asouagier, based on Latin
ad- ‘to’ (expressing change) + suavis ‘sweet.’
Forms:
assuage (verb)
assuages (third person present)
assuaged (past tense)
assuaged (past participle)
assuaging (present participle)
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Today in History
(1066) Anglo-Saxon rule ends as the Normans conquer England
Almost three weeks after landing his
invasion force in England, Duke
William I of Normandy takes on King
Harold II and his infantry at the Battle
of Hastings. By sunset, the AngloSaxon Age ends and William the
Conqueror’s Norman rule begins, with
Harold dead and William soon to be
crowned king. .
The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the NormanFrench army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the
Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of
England. It took place approximately 7 miles northwest of Hastings, close to the
present-day town of Battle, East Sussex, and was a decisive Norman victory.
Date: Oct 14, 1066
— Source: wiki/Battle_of_Hastings
(1934) Lux Soap lures listeners with drama on the airwaves
At 2:30 PM, the NBC Blue Network
comes on the air from New York with
‘Seventh Heaven,’ an adaptation of the
Broadway play and the first program in
the new ‘Lux Radio Theatre’ show. The
anthology series will become hugely
popular and remain on the air for the
next 20 years..
Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic
radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network; CBS Radio,
and NBC Radio. Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two
seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were
performed live before studio audiences. The series became the most popular
dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and
continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. The
primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its Lux Soap brand.
First broadcast: Oct 14, 1934
Last broadcast: Jun 07, 1955
— Source: wiki/Lux_Radio_Theatre
(1947) Yeager’s got the right stuff to fly at Mach 1
Former WWII fighter pilot Chuck
Yeager flies an experimental Bell X-1
rocket plane at a supersonic speed that
some experts believe will rip apart any
aircraft. Yeager pushes it to Mach 1.07,
faster than the speed of sound, and
afterwards lands safely in the
California desert. .
Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager is a former United States Air Force officer and
record-setting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have
exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.
Born: Feb 13, 1923 (age 93) · Myra, WV
— Source: wiki/Chuck_Yeager
(1962) Missiles in Cuba bring the world to the brink
The Cold War burns hot as a US spy
plane documents the first photographic
evidence of Soviet nuclear warheads
stockpiled in San Cristobal, Cuba, just
90 miles from Florida. What follows will
be weeks of crisis negotiations between
the US and USSR that bring the world
perilously close to a nuclear exchange..
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean
Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United
States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in
Cuba. Along with being televised worldwide, it was the closest the Cold War
came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union
engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over
the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from
U.S. shores. In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy
(1917-63) notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his
decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was
prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to
national security. Following this news, many people feared the world was on the
brink of nuclear war. However, disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s (1894-1971) offer to remove the Cuban
missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. Kennedy also
secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.
Start date: Oct 16, 1962
End date: Oct 28, 1962
Extended: CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS |
— Source: wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
— Additional Source: www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis
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