Word: calm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Topic A in Guatemala City last week was the $25,000 check that an importing firm had issued to the nation's President. When the news broke a fortnight ago that Carlos Castillo Armas had deposited the check to his bank account, he promptly volunteered a calm and reasonable explanation: the $25,000 represented nothing more sinister than the repayment of a personal loan to an old friend, Mario Bolanos García, head of Comercial Guatemalteca. But the explanation left some king-size questions: Why was a personal loan repaid with a check on Comercial Guatemalteca, instead...
...attractive blonde correspondent managed to keep her children calm and file her election dispatches for FOREIGN NEWS' Ritual Day. Monica is not one to let motherhood interfere for long with journalism. Twice she has sent us cryptic cables to the effect that she would be out of touch briefly. Each time we received from her, in about ten days, excellent story suggestions with the notations that she had taken time out for childbearing...
...reporters walked in, some grabbing chairs, the others lining up against the walls. At a great oval table before them sat Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, his spectacles glinting in the bright light, surrounded by five unfamiliar-looking men, whom he introduced as distinguished scientists. They were calm, poised, at ease; a few of the reporters licked their pencils nervously as Hagerty began to speak...
Heart of the Team. On the bench, ruminating over a cud of tobacco, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Catcher Campanella is the picture of tranquillity. He never makes an unnecessary move. Take away the uniform, and he would look for all the world like a displaced Buddha in calm contemplation. But the fans sit up when he waddles to his place behind the plate. A remarkable transformation takes place: the somnolent bulk becomes a quick and agile athlete. After he has strapped on the "tools of ignorance,"* hunkered down in the close confines of the modern catcher...
...publicly to go back and put his uniform on right, so incredibly undiplomatic as to say at the death of his uncle, King Edward VII of England: "An outstanding political personality has suddenly disappeared from the European stage ... I believe that on the whole it will make for more calm in European politics." But Edward's mother, Queen Victoria, always claimed that the Kaiser was her favorite grandson, and she died in his arms...