Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, to the accompaniment of eerie music and the sound of loud explosions, a succession of breathless news announcers pleaded with Parisians not to panic. "You are helpless in any case," they added. They begged listeners to remain calm "even if you see sudden flashes in the sky, hear claps of thunder; if the earth quakes, lights fail, electric motors stop and you sense . . . loss of equilibrium...
...Emotionally I was reduced to a most primitive level of hope-fear. My feeling of apprehension and insecurity during the first operation was relieved by two factors: the authoritative, calm voice of the surgeon and the comforting physical contacts of [two women] physicians (who stroked my brow, pressed...
...advance advertising did not mention was the ugliness of the fire escapes ... or the noise and grime and smell of the subways, or the scores of desolately unbeautiful cross-town streets. . . . What is true of New York is true of America itself. All of it together, the splendid, shoddy, calm and frenzied are one thing...
...their wits. Less flamboyant than Lord Beaverbrook's huge (circ. 3,376,000), shrieking Daily Express, far livelier than Lord Camrose's Daily Telegraph, the News Chronicle puts a higher value on good writing than on scoops. At its best, the News Chronicle has some of the calm balance and Olympian clarity of that staid old thunderer, the Times (circ. 196,000), although in all England only the Manchester Guardian comes close to the Times's great, impersonal prestige. If the Times suddenly vanished, most of its London readers would probably turn to the News Chronicle...
...Calm and commanding...