Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months Washington had known that white-haired Leo Thomas Crowley, boss of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Foreign Economic Administration, would step out of the Government as soon as he considered his war duties done. Last week he stepped out, calm, neat and precise as ever-but hopping...
...honestly think that the most decent job on the networks is done by that old kitten-ball player, Lowell Thomas. He at least keeps calm. His stuff seems to have been carefully edited. He helps his audiences by saying, "This is significant," or "Here is an item which I have my doubts about...
...Leaf, a Hand. They found something very comforting about Beebe. He looked like a prospector, a stooped, greying man in khaki shirt, riding breeches and high-laced boots. He was always calm, dignified and assured. He wanted no money. Unlike doctors, he recited no baffling mumbo jumbo, but merely looked at his visitors' left hands to see what was the matter with them. "You look at a leaf to tell what's wrong with a tree," he explained gravely. "I look at your hand." The visitors began to feel better already...
...Koreans a new era had begun. Russian marines patrolled Seoul, Korea's capital. Elsewhere in the Land of Morning Calm, Red Army paratroopers and truck-borne infantry had taken over airfields, harbors, railway junctions. Moscow reported that the Red flag waved in Korean towns, that Korean crowds were wildly cheering their liberators, that self-government committees were operating, and that a purge of collaborationists had begun...
...battled through 18 games without a break in service. The crowd of 12,000 rose to applaud - and stretch - when Talbert's tremendous serve put him ahead, 12-11. But after doing the impossible on one good leg, Talbert didn't have any more. The robot-calm Parker took the set 14-12, the next...