Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under China's new conquerors, calm, lanky Dr. Wallace, a 42-year-old native of Knoxville, Tenn., continued his work in Wuchow despite the hindrance of the Chinese Communists. His popularity with the Chinese of the Wuchow area was his undoing; Communist propaganda about the wicked Americans could not stand up against his living example...
Playboy Conrad ("Nicky") Hilton Jr., 24, divorced last month by Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, got some more headlines with a one-round bout in the early morning calm of a Hollywood bar. An Air Force lieutenant with a brunette date asked Hilton to tone down his language. Instead, the lieutenant got a sock on the nose and some advice: "Bums like you ought to be in Korea." The Air Force counterattacked and Hilton got a lump behind...
...Calm Air. Slick drummed up new trade (textiles, television and auto parts) and opened up new markets, flying Christmas mistletoe from Dallas to Manhattan, Texas okra to Detroit's big colony of Southern workers. Last year, after complaining to CAB that airmail-subsidized American and the big boys were still harassing his unsubsidized line, Slick slapped a $30 million suit on them, charging antitrust violations. After that, he says, they let him alone...
...have to fight, and in grueling 60-day patrols into "The Empire," i.e., Japanese waters, the service abundantly proved its worth. U.S. subs were soon chewing up Japanese shipping at the rate of over 200,000 tons a month. The U.S. submariner turned out to be a calm, steady-eyed fighting man with anti-freeze in his veins...
...played the Minuet with delicacy and reserve, even in the few places marked forts. The familiar theme and variations brought out the amazing tone and balance of the group in pianissimo passenger such as the fourth variation, and the bouncing fifth variation illustrated the great exuberance that the calm-looking performers could convey. They made the rapid finals as compact as a single unit, despite its many quick changes in color...