Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calm British termed "unprecedented" last week the lack of respect for their Navy's traditional might shown by Rightist aviators off Mallorca. They impudently dropped 15 bombs, none of which hit the British destroyer Gallant, were repelled by her shellfire, and when London asked apologies these were profusely given -but still those Spanish aviators had been "unprecedentedly" cocky. The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, weary of office and about to retire as Prime Minister, was doing his best to think chiefly of the Coronation, but all Europe realized that Russia, Italy, Germany and France were feverishly cheating on their pledges...
Panting and pugnacious, he concluded: "But they do not succeed in disturbing our calm...
...stratosphere varies in height from about eleven miles at the Equator to four or less at the Poles. One of its chief features is that there is practically no vertical temperature gradient. By describing it as "a calm and weatherless region," TIME meant that it lies above the turbulence, heavy clouds and precipitation which characterize the troposphere or surface layer of the atmosphere...
...Ponce issued a permit. Colonel Enrique de Orbeta, insular police chief, promptly canceled it. The Nationalists announced they would parade anyhow. The paraders came in contact with police near Pila Hospital in the heart of Ponce. A shot (fired by a Nationalist, according to police) broke the Sunday afternoon calm. The police opened fire with riot and submachine guns, as well as tear gas. When the short battle ended, several thousand onlookers were scrambling to safety, 50 wounded writhed on the pavement, and ten, including one policeman, lay still in death...
...Midnight on the Desert" stands out as a document of our age. It might well prove a reference book to future theorists who attempt to understand the inner workings of the Twentieth Century mind. Priestley's smoothly flowing style and his calm and unhurried manner make this book more of a friendly chat that a formal discourse on life and contemporary topics. As we turn the last pages, we feel that we have come to know J. B. Priestley better than Dr. Johnson, perhaps better even, than our own friends. This book is more than an "Excursion into Autobiography...