Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy wore an air of defiant calm.. "It's not serious but it's awfully inconvenient," said a spokesman. They sent out some tugs and pulled. Nothing happened. They dug a trench around her, dredged a channel through 830 yards of shoals back to the channel. They pumped off all her oil, blasted tunnels under her with high-pressure hoses, got more tugs. Several hundred bluejackets raced from the port side to the starboard side and back, sallying ship in an effort to free her ample bottom from the sucking mud. Nothing happened...
Wait & See. Network executives were taking both the applause and the abuse with studied calm. NBC President Joseph McConnell purred soothingly: "Back in 1932 there was the same fear of radio, and, for a while, colleges barred football broadcasts." The sports world would feel differently "in five years when there will be 20 million video sets catering to 75 million persons...
...Thames estuary, four miles from shore, between Red Sand Tower and the Shivering Sand banks. Second Mate Franz Leipelt, officer on watch, and a British pilot were on the bridge. At the helm, Swedish Able Seaman Herbert Tonning guided his ship at a cautious 10 knots through a calm, moonless night. From the bridge came a shouted order. Tonning spun the wheel, hard. He heard the crunch of steel on steel. Captain Karl Hammerberg, hunched over a pot of tea in the officers' saloon, was thrown headlong on the table. He ran to the bridge. The ship...
...laymen were liberal arts deans, who had made a year's study of preprofessional education. Their bombshell was exploded in the academic calm of the American Conference of Academic Deans at Cincinnati last week. The four-man committee proposed a resolution declaring: "Annually several thousand students fully qualified in training, personality and temperament are denied admission to the professional [medical] training of their choice. This set of conditions constitutes a most serious threat to the continued health and well-being of the American people...
...economic-affairs adviser in the U.S. State Department from 1944 to 1947, calm, courtly William Lockhart Clayton preached the gospel of freer world trade and the responsibility of U.S. businessmen to finance industrial development abroad. Last week, as boss of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world-trading cotton brokers, Will Clayton showed just what he meant. In Mexico, alongside the highway from Saltillo to Monterrey, rimmed by 12,000-ft. peaks of the Sierra Madre, he opened a new $3,000,000 food-processing plant. Square, squat and red brick, it looked much the same as any other plant from the outside...