Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite a parade of ten rebuttal witnesses from the prosecution (in all, 28 former P.W.s testified against him), Sergeant Gallagher remained calm. At week's end, the court-martial gave its verdict: guilty of the unpremeditated murder of both the sick men he put out into the snow, of the maltreatment-but not the murder-of the third man he had strung from the peg, guilty of collaborating with the enemy. The sentence was the maximum: confinement at hard labor "for the term of your natural life...
...rushed back to Morocco from Paris with a special invitation to the nationalist leaders, asking them to meet with the French Cabinet to work out a compomise. Because Grandval had won their trust, most nationalist leaders accepted this last-minute offer. But though the moderates in Morocco urged calm on their impatient people, the extremists would not be stayed. As so often before, the French concessions came too late...
...French commander of the Casablanca area, General André Franchi, broadcast an appeal for calm. "I am a man who knows and loves the Moroccan soul," he said, "but I have the imperative duty of maintaining order." Franchi ordered his troops to fire if disobeyed, then added: "I ask God to avoid this at all costs...
...Comprehensible. As a rule, Musicmaker Howe is far from angry. One of the last of Boston's gentleman-writers-he was the reputed model for Horatio Willing, the biographer-friend of The Late George Apley-Mark Howe is a calm and gentle writer of calm and gentle books. This week Howe celebrates his gist birthday with the publication of Sundown, a thin volume of verse, his 36th published work. While Howe's poetry is often as amateurish as his performance on the recorder, his poems have the nostalgic appeal of a Victorian valentine. "The trouble is," says Howe...
This year the script was totally rewritten. After a month of calm discussion, G.E. and the union signed a new five-year contract that made everyone happy. Cooed G.E.'s Boulware: "A splendid settlement." Echoed I.U.E.'s Carey: "A splendid settlement...