Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crossroads where her traditional antipathy to the free flow of international trade diverges from her new role as world leader. She seems to stand there in vacillating acceptance of her eminent and high destiny. The U.S. is in a strategic position to lead the world into the calm meadows of economic peace and prosperity...
...usually-calm, blue eyes would blaze indignantly, though, if anybody tried to tell him how much sawdust was needed to best cushion the loam in the jumping and vaulting pits. He knew how much was needed, and for years he had charge of the pole vaulting pit at the big indoor invitational track meets in Boston Garden. He remembers every detail of Dutch Wamerdam's record-breaking hoist of 15 feet, 7 1/4 inches...
...Calm & Slow. In ruling Hummon out, the court had pooh-poohed his contention that it had no jurisdiction in the case. Georgia law, said the court, states plainly that the legislature may elect a governor only when no candidate has a majority. Gene Talmadge and Thompson, elected with him as lieutenant governor,. had had majorities in the November election. Thus, said the court, the legislature had had no legal grounds for electing Hummon, and Thompson, the ex-schoolteacher son of a tenant farmer, had every legal right to the governorship...
Acting Governor Thompson ("I look better just plain M. E.") was delighted. "I plan to take it calm and slow," he said. "I don't like rowdyism...
Versilov, calm and complex, also represents the resilient man who, in an age of chaos, manages somehow not to be destroyed, protecting himself and his ideals of honor and love with a hotchpotch armory of friendly tolerance, extreme reserve, silence, outbursts of passion and generosity, unyielding pride and unexpected humbleness. Like Dostoevsky himself, Versilov desires to love God and his neighbor-and is suspicious of such desires ("Very proud people like to believe in God, especially those who despise other people. . . . They turn to God to avoid doing homage to man [because] to do homage...