Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glare. We had broken through into the center of the doughnut. It was like coming out of a tunnel. Wind velocity dropped at least one-half in the space of seconds. The plane righted itself and started climbing, but in a minute and a half we crossed the relative calm of the center and smashed into the other side...
...quiet French wine town of Mâcon on the Saone, the hospital's doctors and nurses wore worried frowns. Even Madame Anne-Marie Demussy, the usually calm head nurse, seemed upset. Something very odd indeed was going on. In less than three years, 15 women patients had died mysterious deaths under very similar circumstances...
...Fiumicino, the muddy waters of the Tiber merge with the blue Mediterranean. The town's life seems as sluggish as the river, but beneath the apparent calm there is a deep, turbulent rift which sometimes whirls up like an assault of wind-whipped breakers. That rift is symbolized by the tablet in the city hall commemorating Garibaldi's visit in 1849 (after the Republicans had driven the Pope from Rome), and by the blue & white statue of the Virgin Mary in the church...
...chintz dressing room, Margaret put on her own makeup, straightened the folds in her voluminous white chiffon skirt. She was calm and confident. She had a master of orchestral accompaniment in balding Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and he had rehearsed her carefully...
...Calm of Ignorance. Bronx-born Regina Resnik was beginning to feel the strain. Said she: "The other times, I guess I had the calm of ignorance, but now it is a nervous strain. I was really scared about Carmen." She was also a little wary of getting a reputation as an operatic spare tire. She had little cause to worry. Since she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her surprise debut three years ago, she has sung in many a Met production-Toscx, A'ida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Madame Butterfly, etc. On the strength of such...