Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convincing. Although Stevens is a trifle too All-American and anxious, his voice as narrator in some flashback scenes is far more pleasing. Leo Genn is appropriately noble as the young healer who must fight his boss over methods for Miss de Havilland's cure. He is strong, intelligent, calm, and quite impressive...
...drugstore, she wore toreador pants; another time, during the simmering heat of Lnst July, she wore shorts and a halter.) Always it was Maggie who gave the orders: "Put up your hands-I'll kill ya." Then, she would give instructions to her jittery confederates in a calm, soft voice: "Take him to the back room and make him lie down . . . You get the money." Police marked Maggie as one of the coolest dames on the books...
...year-old daughter, Mrs. Frank Thompson. (His two sons, Ted in the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., and Bob at Denison University, are unmarried.) After dinner there is more work: meetings at the church, civic committees and visiting ill parishioners. He has no hobbies-apparently he needs none. The gentle calm in his blue-grey eyes, in his slow, broad smile, in his unhurried passage through a 16-hour day, baffles those who know him only casually. Says he: "Calmness is rooted in faith in God, in yourself, and in the ultimate triumph of justice." Melting Pot. Richmond's First...
Twenty months after its founding, Harvard's Advanced Standing program is an important and growing concern. It makes news, however, only by continued calm expansion. Advanced Standing, as Hanson puts it, is not a revolutionary program to redesign American education. It is just a feeling that the traditionally fixed grade levels--freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior in high school and college--are not always the best mold for the education of a young American mind...
Leaving two other stripped bodies on the pavement, the mob then surged through the gate, trampled two men to death and danced around their corpses. Another victim was doused with gasoline and set afire. Trembling with disgust and worry, Mohammed V emerged from the palace and pleaded: "Be calm, be calm...