Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the exception of a slight fracas in 1926, the Station's relations with Harvard students have been calm enough to make the "rowdy undergraduate" stereotype seem fictitious. The one irregular episode occurred when the U.T. was first opened and students, perhaps to intimidate the unfamiliar apparitions, heaved over-ripe vegetables at the screen. Police were quickly summoned and a few heads were dented. But since that time, all patrolmen assigned to the College have been carefully chosen and no major incidents have developed. Furthermore, by keeping in close touch with University officials, the police have managed to apprehend...
...Churchill served notice that he intended to propose a vote of censure this week, the Mother of Parliaments was not exactly furnishing to younger democracies an example of deliberative calm...
...leak" from London. The Foreign Office had informed Washington that Great Britain, her economy nearly wrecked, could no longer maintain the security of Greece. That had been the subject of the White House conference. The story unfolded with no warning thunderclap, but in an atmosphere of such calm that the nation scarcely realized that a crisis had been reached...
...back bench, Knowland waited respectfully until Taft had finished. Then he rose and very firmly pointed out that at the rate of $1 billion a year it would take 259 years to wipe out the debt.* He thought the Senators ought to do it faster than that. He was calm: before the session, he had taken the precaution of lining up maverick Republicans on his side. He also knew Democrats would be with him, if only to embarrass Taft. A trifle grimly, Colorado's Eugene Millikin suggested a $2 billion tax payment as a compromise. Taft retreated...
...Boston reacted with cod-like calm when the Duotone Sound Laboratories decided it was the quietest city in the U.S. But citizens of Los Angeles, which was second, and New York, which was third, could hardly believe their ears...