Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no change in U.S. foreign policy, he said, referring to the congressional squabbling (see above). There was a dilemma, he added, between the great need for as full and as quick public information as possible, and the equally great need for a certain amount of privacy and calm. He remembered once talking about this in a lecture under the heading of "The Bureaucrat's Dilemma, or Why Diplomats Become Dipsomaniacs...
John Rankin just grinned. "If we can spend untold billions of dollars on other countries," he replied with sanctimonious calm, "feeding and clothing every lazy lout from Tokyo to Timbuctu-then we can take care of our aged veterans when they are unable to care for themselves...
Before the week was out, Congress took one step toward restoring legislative calm. The House voted $150,000 to buy new chairs for the House floor. The old wooden seats, explained Capitol Physician George Calver, were so long from front to back that when a member sat back, circulation was cut off at his calves. When he sat forward to ease his legs, he tended to slump down, push his stomach up into his lungs, impairing his digestion and breathing. The new armless models would permit members to recline in healthy, upholstered comfort and, possibly, improve congressional dispositions...
Living & Learning. Dean Mclntosh will bring to the task a calm flair for managing things. She comes of a Quaker family, went to Bryn Mawr when her aunt, Dr. M. Carey Thomas, was president. After a year at Cambridge, she took her Ph.D. in English at Johns Hopkins...
...that was the way it had to be. Young (33), Yale-educated Bill Block inherited the paper from his father, the late Paul Block, in 1941.* He has been trying to cut its ties to the Republican Party and make it an "independent" paper ever since. Bernhard is a calm, competent veteran who came up the hard...