Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that politicians would take his gold fillings unless he guarded them with his life. In general, he had been determined to vote against somebody or something ever since the two big party conventions last summer. Having made his decision, he had then subsided into comparative, not to say lethargic, calm...
...business of choosing a President will be uninspired and abnormally calm this year. From both major candidates the voters have heard too much carping and too much rhapsodic optimism. Many will show their dissatisfaction by turning to a third or fourth party, believing that the next four years are expendable, and hoping for something better in 1952. They fail to recognize, however, with what deadly speed history lopes from war to peace, from boom to bust. Rejecting the path of protest, the CRIMSON believes it must choose one of the two candidates whose election is possible. The CRIMSON supports...
...creature was stirring in the Yard last night, but it looked like the calm before what University police feared would be a storm of Big Green activity during the wee hours of the morning...
...Cathedral, flanked by citations from two continents, testified that she was more than that. The plaque told of a night when Faith, a gentle grey and white cat, had "endured horrors and perils beyond the power of words to tell" and through them all "stayed calm and steadfast." Even the Times paid tribute to this heroine who "stuck, while the bombs fell, to her kitten...
Dominate or Liquidate. In the end, Perón abruptly put the brakes on his own oratory, told the crowd to be calm. He had the patience, he said, "to dominate the agitators, or liquidate them if necessary." Before the crowd went home it had one more treat: Evita announced that she would willingly die "a thousand times" for the cause of the people...