Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expressed their beliefs would recognize an old injustice that has long demanded recognition. But what is needed even more today is a plaque in each city and town of America as a warning that intolerance and denial of freedoms during moments of passion may be regretted in the later calm...
Outwardly France was calm. Bitter winter was at hand, but so long as the soft autumn days lasted, people tried to forget. Madame Suzanne Schreiber, attending the annual Radical Party Congress in Nice, splashed like hundreds of others in the sea. As the Paris art season opened, Modernist Painter Man Ray's Le Beau Temps (Fair Weather) caused a mild buzz. A world congress of magicians bemused the Paris public in acts-one of which, said a wag, should be called the comrade and the fellow traveler. On Montmartre the celebration of the grape harvest turned into a fancy...
...seventh day, a game didn't seem official without Casey trudging unhurriedly in from the bull pen. Big Hugh Casey, who weighs 219 lbs. and runs the Dodgers' favorite beer parlor in Brooklyn, is a man of immense calm. There were often men on bases when he came in; but Casey had a tavernkeeper's instinct for quelling disturbances. He pitched in six of the seven games (another record), won two of them, saved another...
...Calm in Washington. This desperate Chinese reaction could scarcely be blamed, nor could it be discounted merely as a maneuver to frighten the U.S. into giving China more aid. But official Washington preserved a stolid calm. One key official at the State Department dismissed the news as unimportant, conceding only that it had raised a few hackles here & there. Said he in a tone that would scarcely have been used by Britons at their hoitiest and toitiest in dealing with "natives": "Perhaps the Chinese have been a shade more independent recently, as if they wanted to show that China...
Very early this morning, the Charles River appeared calm. A passing ship's captain attributed this to the flatness of the water...