Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nowadays things are not so simple. A lot of United Nations people had settled down in the calm, tree-shaded streets of Westchester. Some of these people come from countries no cop ever even heard of before. Nevertheless, a cop has got to do his duty as he sees...
Moment of Choice. Election day was warm, clear and calm. Voting was heavier than expected: all candidates had exhorted Frenchmen to do their duty, and Roman Catholic leaders had said it would be less of a sin for Catholics to miss Mass that Sunday than to fail to vote...
...when MacLean was promoted to a post as Counselor in Cairo, his polished calm cracked. One night he burst into the apartment of a friend, smashed every stick of furniture in the place. The Foreign Office considered him too valuable to let him go. He was recalled to London, given psychiatric treatment. His new job after the crackup: boss of the Foreign Office's American section...
Temper & Civility. As the committee got down to the cross-examining of Acheson, a calm seemed to settle over the hearing room. Not in years had an investigation in which feelings ran so high been conducted in so temperate and fair-minded a fashion. Both parties were duly sensitive to political nuances, but even more sensitive to the perilous complexities of the issues they discussed...
Today, Yale undergraduates still "play the game"-on the field & off-in an atmosphere of calm but unrelenting competition. From the moment a freshman begins to "heel" for the News, the Banner or the Lit, his life becomes a purposeful drive upward-but a drive he must pretend to ignore. "Intense, aren't you?" is the rebuke to overenthusiasm. "The thing to do," says one undergraduate, "is to drift energetically...