Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated effects of a similar bomb on Washington and Manhattan. And this week Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission returned to Washington from the atomic testing grounds to announce that a second thermonuclear test blast had been "successfully" set off last Friday. This time U.S. voices were calm and collected...
...remarkable piece of luck that the sea was calm and there were other boats within an hour's distance," Albion observed yesterday...
Albion said the large percentage of military personnel on board the Windrush probably accounted in part for the passengers' calm acceptance of orders...
...know and constantly voice the brassy notes (dum du dum dum) of Dragnet's theme music. Phonograph records (St. George & the Dragonet, Little Blue Riding Hood, Christmas Dragnet) which parody Dragnet's terse, low-keyed dialogue have sold 1,326,000 copies, and Sergeant Friday's calm "All we want are the facts, ma'am" has become a conversation staple. But millions who laugh at Dragnet jokes are spirited back weekly into a mood of serious intentness by the program itself...
...public life was far from calm, his undergraduate career was at least as filled with contention. In his relations with Harvard, he seemed incapable of remaining in the background. From the time he first came to college in 1876, he assumed an immediate and intense dislike for President Eliot, and he vigorously attacked Eliot's revolutionary innovation, the elective system. Roosevelt really did not try to attract attention, but his red whiskers and eccentric manners marked him for Cambridge notoriety...