Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they never chased them away. Hundreds of people just kept dodging. Finally it was the blue-clad police, the real killers, firing burp guns, machine guns and pistols, who sent the crowd fleeing down the alleyways. Next day, as the strike continued, the crowd became even bolder. With a calm that chilled the spines of onlookers, a group of some 500 quietly stood their ground as a unit of Radar's militia advanced toward them, firing over their heads. Soon brown uniforms and plain working clothes were toe to toe, bare inches apart. There was a moment of silence...
...with an inexhaustible fund of energy and a warm passion for good talk, good food and good company. Writhing in histrionic impatience on a parliamentary bench, his face contorted with unspoken rejoinders, he has been known to reduce opposition speakers to near paralysis. At work alone, however, he is calm, efficient and dictatorial. "You can do whatever you want," runs his formula for those who work with him, "so long as you want what I want." As presiding officer of NATO he will undoubtedly exercise just such forceful authority. "Spaak," says one European statesman who has sat under the gavel...
...Calm as a Cow." Al-Anon has nearly 1,000 national chapters and 12,000 members. It exists because of one hard fact: the average alcoholic, apart from what he does to himself, cuts a devastating swath through his surroundings. The nation's 4,000,000 alcoholics have in one way or another impaired the lives of an estimated 20 million nonalcoholics, most of them relatives. Al-Anon bars active alcoholics, but is open to almost anybody who might have suffered from them-wives or husbands of reformed, unreformed, or backsliding alcoholics; remote relatives and friends of alcoholics; people...
...children more harm than good. Well, now Grace has been going to my group for two years. Her husband is still drinking, harder than ever, and nobody knows it better than Grace. But I've never seen such a change in a person. She's as calm as a cow. She's told her three kids that their daddy is a sick man and not responsible for what he does, and that you love people no matter what they do-and she's sold them on it. And she's sold herself. She runs...
...around for an exciting profession, he thought at one time of astronomy. This attraction, he now recalls, came from several romantic novels about bearded astronomers sitting on mountaintops and looking at the stars, while young girls in lacy nightgowns ran uphill toward them, tearing their nightgowns on the thickets. Calm reflection convinced him that real-life astronomy does not live up to this billing...