Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty Broadcasts. When the big hour arrives, 30-odd Indiana radio stations will describe every play to stay-at-homes in every corner of Indiana. The only calm & collected people in the house will be college coaches from such faraway places as North Carolina State and Tulane, in town to size up prospects. Indiana is a prize marketplace for basketball players...
...American Public. The reasons for Clifford's success are not hard to find. He spreads calm and good will like a road-oiling wagon. At home he is a model father to his three daughters, Margery, 15, Joyce, 14, Randall, 7. When they were younger he liked to tell them stories; particularly the story about the boy with his finger in the dike. But when business was on his mind he sometimes lost interest in the story and began mumbling about a law case. "Never mind the law case," the children would shout, "tell us about the boy with...
...Parrett, calm about the whole thing, said: "I was hoping...
...Thorez (Jeannette Vermeerseh) screamed. Thorez, dabbing his bloody face with a handkerchief, tried to get up. His friends yelled "Agent provocateur!'' and "Hold him!" at Laurent; they attacked the group of flyers. A frantic Russian shouted "Nyet! Nyet!" A French major who tried to restore calm was tossed out into the gutter. Ambassador Bogomolov, safe in a corner, roared with laughter...
...politician's ruthlessness, and although he has been president of the now-dominant Acción Democrática party, he has little sympathy for the business of machine politics. Last year, as president of the Constituent Assembly where Venezuela's new democratic constitution was written, his calm reasonableness headed off many a crisis...