Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision to step down. His father-manager, Domingo González, wondered aloud whether his son would still feel the same when his leg healed and he began to miss the cheers of the crowd. But to his mother in Spain, Luis Miguel sent a cable: "You can be calm now. I have taken part in my last bullfight...
...Englishwoman, I remain quite calm when reading American criticisms of my country's politics, coffee, cooking, or even British women, but your Jan. 26 reference to the "effete British voice" made me furious ! My dictionary defines effete as "exhausted, worn out with age . . ." Does TIME mean then that the speaker was an old man with a quavery voice? Or were you referring to the mode of expression and pronunciation? If this last is the case, then I venture to say that the British accent, be it Scots, Lancashire, Cockney or merely Mayfair, has more vitality, variety and general caress...
...election day this week, Paraguay's President Federico Chaves puffed his black cigars and puttered about his two-story house on a jacaranda-shaded street in Asunción. Don Federico could celebrate his 71st birthday and his second presidential victory with calm assurance, for it was a one-man election, Paraguay's fourth since 1948.* Through the day, most of the 200,000 registered voters dutifully visited the polls (under threat of fine) to cast their ballots for him as the candidate of the Colorados, the country's only legal political party...
...straight to the point as head of the mighty U.S. Department of Justice. Sitting in his red leather swivel chair with his left knee drawn up, his foot planted on the seat, his long, thin hands dangling, he seemed as relaxed as a ballplayer in midwinter. With his customary calm, he was facing tremendously important decisions on Communism, corruption, crime and the gamut of vital issues affecting the people of the U.S. The success of the Eisenhower Administration depends in large part on how well Brownell does...
...collapsed from a combined attack of jaundice, dropsy and asthma. The next year, no better, he sailed for Lisbon. He died there three months later, yet to the last, he kept his spirit calm and cheerful and never lost what Thackeray called his ''manly relish of life." His last letter home bears witness: "I must have from Fordhook likewise four hams, a very fine hog fatted as soon as may be and being cut into flitches sent me, likewise a young hog made into pork and salted and pickled in a tub. A vast large Cheshire cheese...