Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heads Down!" "Get 'em ready, gunner," said Captain Jaskilka to Gunnery Sergeant Barnett. His voice was very quiet and calm. Ahead we could see the first and second waves dashing for that forbidding sea wall...
...Production Act passed, signed and in his hands, President Truman summoned the country last week to "build up the strength ... to deter Communist aggression." He spoke over radio and TV in the middle of the nation's Saturday-night-out. Few people were much aroused from their weekend calm; the people had heard most of what he had to say before. Defense costs were going up & up; they would be $30 billion annually by next June, more in the years to follow. There would be less to spend for peacetime purposes. The home-front problem, the President said...
...thread linen line-the same slender line the experts used in the tuna-fishing tournaments. He caught his own bait, a small mackerel. Then he hired 65-year-old veteran Guide Percy MacRitchie to row him out to the tuna grounds in an 18-ft. dory. The sea was calm-until the big fish struck. Hodgson struck back, hooking the fish with all the weight of his solid (190 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) frame. The battle began...
...know, Bill, I am ever distressed when I have to disturb the calm placidity of your ordered existence," wrote the mighty John. "Yet . . . the rights of American workers . . . should not be bartered to appease your innate craving for orthodox respectability. Any mess you cook up with the C.I.O., if you can cook up any mess with the C.I.O., will . . . have to be eaten by you . . . alone. We do our own cooking...
...between are analysts like CBS's Eric Sevareid, a measured, calm-voiced reporter who is hard-put to give both sides of every question in his allotted 5 minutes; NBC's Morgan Beatty, who alternates reading the minds of the Politburo with such "colorful" items as Hollywood's reporting an increased G.I. demand for pinup girls; and Mutual's Frank Edwards, who claims to have tipped his listeners in advance to the B-29 bombing on the Naktong front and usually sounds willing to punch anyone who disagrees with...