Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned out, had suffered less than 100 casualties. But the Jews had driven the Arabs back, seized nearby Arab villages, firmly blocked the road into Arab Haifa from the southeast. Some Jews disguised as Arabs were caught trying to get through Kawukji's lines. Grinning with a calm ferocity that showed his gold molars, Kawukji said: "I have some Jewish prisoners, but intend to kill them...
...Russia is calm. The U.S. is hysterical...
...When I walked from the hotel to the cable office, about eight blocks, I stumbled over bodies and debris. To escape soldiers' and snipers' bullets I crouched in doorways, flattened myself against walls, dashed across exposed street corners. The government has announced that calm reigns in Bogotá, but it is a strange calm. Every few minutes there is heavy firing. The troops are still trying to clean out snipers...
...buyers had begun to see the beauty of the beast's work. In that year he published his ambiguous Notes of a Painter, which have been quoted as his final word ever since. "What I dream of," he wrote, "is an art that is equilibrated, pure and calm, free of disturbing subject matter ... a means of soothing the soul . . . like a comfortable armchair. . . ." That simile has led critics to expect far less of Matisse than he expected of himself...
...tides of the upper air were calm as darkness fell. One balmy air mass pushed up from the Gulf of Mexico, flowed over New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas. Cold air edged eastward from the Pacific. When the air masses came together, like rock strata along an earthquake fault, a storm was born...