Word: calm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experience has taught most inhabitants of Mexico to be calm in the presence of bombs. Therefore when Chief of Police Edmondo Herrera of the rebel garrisoned city of Juarez, saw a large red bomb lying in the gutter, one evening last week, he stopped his car and inspected it professionally. It was a time bomb, containing about 24 Ibs. of dynamite and set to explode...
Bare walls, and a plain French wooden bed. For 24 hours, last week, the Generalissimo tried out an "American bed"-with a crank and gadgets-then resumed his austere pallet. As he lay with fast-beating pulse, enduring alternate chills and fever, the man with the calm grey eyes would sometimes cast them for a long time on the richly embroidered Banner of all the Allied Nations, which hung above his head. Sometimes too he would call for his baton-the baton of a Marshal of France-and with the tips of his old fingers would caress along the shaft...
...Sabbath calm of Cuban politics was suddenly broken last week by a series of loud and alarming reports...
...Vatican for over a decade, he professed himself "amazed," last week, when the Summus Pontifex received him not in the Papal Throne Room but privily in his library. Observant Tom Morgan noted that Pio Undecimo was wearing "his little zucchetto or skull cap," and that "he spoke in a calm deliberate way". . . . first in Italian and then in English...
...Plan, one must conclude that Harvard itself notices very little the clogging of its system. It is this refusal to consider as a weakness what others see as the major fault to be corrected that has caused the split in the Harvard camps; no amount of official assurance or calm approval from the outside can make the undergraduate believe that he needs a more settled world to live...