Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn broke over Montgomery next day, tension lay thickly beneath an apparent calm. Thousands of Negroes walked to work through the rain in a nonviolent demonstration. Then, at week's end, Alabama's Governor James Folsom called for a Bi-Racial Commission to try to work out some new ways of putting the pieces back together in a city that would somehow never be the same again...
...side as [Mississippi's] Senator Eastland is on his. By trying to hurry too fast, it could violate the spirit if not the word of the Supreme Court decision quite as grossly as Senator Eastland in trying to defeat it. It is contributing nothing toward a calm and rational working out of a very difficult situation. The reasonable people of the South are caught between two [dangerous] forces: one of them sitting down in the traces like a balky mule, the other trying to move it by setting firecrackers under its belly...
...when all that has been said, it must be repeated that there are hard facts to be faced by calm and sober people-facts not advanced by political demagogues or agitators...
With praiseworthy calm and research, the Texan's supporters declared that the newspaper receives no money from the state. Rather, they contended, it receives funds from subscriptions and advertising and even makes its own investments. This overlooks the fact that the paper's offices are in a University building. A stronger argument shows that the law does not apply to the newspaper since it pertains only to state employees and agencies; neither heading fits the long-independent Texan. The friends of the free press also held that the law attempts to discourage lobbying or political activity but has no effect...
First day on the set, Bill was pale with fright-and exhaustion. What with violin and boxing lessons, he was working 17 hours a day. To calm his fears he called his mother as many as five times a day, and to conceal them he began to give veteran Mamoulian a little friendly guidance on how the show should be done. He almost got fired. Suddenly he had a two-day nervous collapse. Barbara Stanwyck, the star, came to his rescue. Every night, no matter how hard the day's work, she gave him a private rehearsal...