Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always felt . . . that a leader is only as good as the men he leads. His statement of 'unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight came from the very bottom of Ike's heart. ... I know Ike. He is calm and sincere-he keeps calm command of the most complicated situations...
...calm, good child," recalls Anita, who has always adored her father. The statement only mildly suggests her upbringing, and the terrifying crisis for which it prepared her. Expected by both her Catholic parents to behave as nearly as possible like a saint, she tried only too hard to oblige. A nun who taught and befriended her in grammar school remembers her as "a beautiful dreamer...
...night was undisturbed, except for an alarm touched off by two U.S. landing craft, homeward-bound from the Ormoc beachhead. The next morning, too, was so calm that U.S. Navymen began to smell trouble. At 3 p.m., they sighted it-enemy planes...
...Berggrav had not always seen so clearly. Once he thought that peace could be won without battle. In the first seven days of the German invasion, a state of chaos existed in Norway under the dictatorship of Vidkun Quisling, head of the Nasjonal Samling, the Norwegian Nazi organization. To calm the tumult, Reichskommissar Josef Terboven sought the aid of Norway's Primate in forming a provisional government under King and Storting (Parliament). Quisling was quietly shoved into the background and Eivind Berggrav, man of God and man of peace, took to the radio to appeal for order. "The civil...
Past the mouth of the Wabash, whose peaceful blue-green waters merged with the yellow Ohio, out on the Mississippi, with its streaming files of ducks and geese, the boat sailed on. "Red-yellow moon," wrote Irving, "silver star-calm, cobalt-green sky reflected in river . . . wide, treeless, prairie-trembling with heat-here not a tree or a shrub was to be seen -a view like that of the ocean . . . beautiful clear river, group of Indian nymphs half naked on banks...