Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower for the initiative he has taken this week with respect to atomic materials and for his forthright reaffirmation of our desire for peaceful . . . relations with the Russian people," he said. But, Stevenson went on, "while he speaks of unity his colleagues sow disunity. While he calls for calm his friends light the fires of hysteria . . . Where are [Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms] today? Who speaks for them...
Between the warring groups, San Francisco Police Chief Michael ("Big Mike") Gaffey and 170 officers formed a thin line. Police Captain John Engler and Lieut. Les Dolan moved forward to meet the marchers. "Calm down, men," said Engler. "We don't want any trouble here." But A.F.L. men, marching 30 abreast, slogged on, pushing the police before them. Half a dozen marchers tried for a breakthrough. The first man rushed head down through the police line, was caught by a cop's uppercut, sent sprawling to the ground. Four policemen pummeled him with fists and clubs and carried...
When they did, Judge Bullock hurried upstairs to have her picture taken with the Barkers. Mrs. Harpstrite left the room in tears. "She had to be in the picture," Mrs. Harpstrite cried, "so let her take the case herself. I won't hear it." Susan tried to calm the conciliator by stroking her hair and saying, "You take the case. I like you" But Conciliator Harpstrite would not be conciliated. Susan and Jess trooped downstairs to Judge Bullock's chambers, trailed by their lawyers...
Ogden Minton Pleissner seems born to the tweed. He has the cool eyes and calm hands of the sportsman, and he puffs a pipe as if it were part of himself. Duck, trout and partridge are Pleissner's meat; bourbon-on-the-rocks is his drink. He is equally at home in the uplands of Wyoming, in the Vermont hills, where he mainly vacations nowadays-and in his Manhattan studio. When Pleissner is not hunting or fishing, he paints pictures of a highly successful kind. This week 24 of his latest, including the watercolors opposite, went on view...
...incubation period is now over for one of these men. Last week, Francis J. McNamara was elected president of the union by an overwhelming majority. The janitor of Weld Hall, McNamara is calm, cautious, close-mouthed. He is a smart man and a strong man. But his strength seems a different kind than that of Mulvihill...