Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three championship? What, indeed? asked proper Elis, who were determined to prove they were best in the league. In the long, 82-year history of "The Game," no Yalemen ever had so satisfying an afternoon. And few Yale teams ever put on so polished a performance. Incredibly calm and casual, Eli Quarterback Dick Winterbauer stood up behind his fine line and lofted high-spin passes that led End Mike Cavallon and Halfback Herb Hallas to easy touchdowns. Harvard Tackle Bob Shaunessy raged behind the weak Crimson forwards, belting their padded sterns and begging them to fight...
Among the 143 paintings and 43 sculptures, there were some works, of course, by a handful of men who stand above fashion. Charles Sheeler's California showed a moonlit village so radiant and calm as to bring Bethlehem to mind. Mark Tobey's Pacific Circle was as boldly abstract as anything on view, yet as subtle as it was bold; it pictured the elements mingling in a gentle storm...
...Christmas disk has somewhat better surfaces, and the same almost matchless quality of choral singing. The assortment of short pieces has more variety than the mass, and gives the HGC-RCS the chance to display considerable breadth of technique. They approach each carol with appropriate vigor or with calm, so that they are somehow able to sound festive without sounding like the YWCA Christmas party...
...whisper conspiratorially to Bulganin or laugh over his shoulder to Mikoyan or talk with proper gravity to the beaming Egyptian War Minister. I elbowed my way in like a diplomat and began working with two cameras strung around my neck. Good-humoredly ignoring the listening, watching press, he seemed calm and in good temper as he surveyed the crowd, shook hands with the incoming Japanese ambassador. I stood only three feet from him, clicking away, looking for a flicker of a beady eye or something revealing, finding him really rather gold-toothed, charming, but thinking...
...Calm & Confident. At his palace desk in Amman, young King Hussein was calm and confident. As soon as the''Cairo campaign started, his police visited every school in refugee trouble spots, warned teachers that they faced instant arrest if they permitted any kind of demonstration by their students. Jordan's own radio returned salvo for salvo, refuting Nasser's charges, charging in turn that "Nasser is a Communist puppet" who is holding his people "under whip and chain...