Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock one bright, calm morning last week, French troops were drawn up before the Mine Owners' League Building, Essen, which for sometime has been French military headquarters...
...from their entrenchments. At the western end of the Wergha Valley, the rebels were driven back into the Spanish zone where, in conjunction with the French, Spanish troops were preparing to deal with them. After these engagements, undertaken in an appalling heat wave, the war became less hectic. A calm that precedes a storm settled on the front...
...hotel, chased Signor Amendola up to his bedroom on the fourth floor where he locked himself in. His secretary received a black eye for being heavy of foot and stiff of limb. At this point, Fascist Deputies prevented further insurrection by urging the local Black Shirts to remain calm and Signor Amendola to leave town...
...serene in Ecuador. Following the recent, peaceful, bloodless revolution (TIME, July 20), impenetrable calm settled upon the country. A new Government was formed...
...seagull or two, poised over the ridged seas that beleaguer Scotland, were puzzled last week by a pair of inexplicable water-fowl-larger, whiter, sleeker than they-which never rose into the air, but skirted the wavetops, their wings petitioning the wind. Through a calm off Bogany Land, round a buoy at Kerry Croy, on the tumbled reach to Blackhouse, one of these birds was always in front of the other. That one was the Lanai, U. S. six-metre boat, sailed by Sherman Hoyt, famed Long Island yachtsman...