Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the President would try to stay out of political controversy, try to keep out of the news, make few trips, do little campaigning. He would also make efforts to choke off unseemly intra-administration rows, once more allow the nation to feel that it was moving in peace & calm...
Storm Center. At the heart of all the whoopdedoo was a dead calm: nobody was excited in the quiet, blue-walled pressroom of the Criminal Courts Building where Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur laid the scene of their famed newspaper play. Grey survivors of Front Pager Hildy Johnson's day were at work on the story. Said 63-year-old Albert Benziger of the Herald-American: "This is without doubt the damnedest story we've ever had. Hildy would be having a hell of a time with...
...swift grey waters of the Rhine last week divided the realm of European Communism. The Kremlin had faced a choice between vanquished Germany and victorious, allied France. With icy calm, it had chosen Germany...
...crept into the huge courtroom as the toneless voice (which once sang resonantly in the Serbian mountains) droned on & on. For the first time in six weeks the crowd of a thousand spectators ceased their hissing. They listened intently to Draja Mihailovich's last defense. He spoke with calm and sincerity, as if he knew that history would heed him even though Communist Tito's court would...
Another National Socialist, grey, diminutive Jaroslav Stransky, was awarded the important Education Ministry, formerly held by the Reds. An ex-professor of criminal law and a newspaper editor with iron nerves, he was unlikely to let the Communists push him around. To illustrate the Stransky calm, friends tell how he took the fall of Paris in 1940. During the mad scramble of flight, he went for a quiet stroll along the Champs-Elysées, where he ran into the well-known Czech pianist, Rudolf Firkusny. Stransky said he had wanted to ask Firkusny's advice on a problem...