Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, with a Negro population of 115,000 (13% of the population), remained cautiously calm. Not only the leaders, but the people of both races seemed genuinely anxious to avoid any big outburst...
...fortnight ago a calm, unruffled Tweed, his throat a little scratchy from so much unaccustomed talking, was reunited with his family in California. He had collected back pay amounting to $6,027 and an admiral out in the Pacific had made him a chief on the spot...
There were no more outbreaks. The citizens of Philadelphia, white & black alike, held their tempers well. (Negro preachers from other cities, who hurried to Philadelphia to beg their people to be calm, found their advice unneeded...
Despite the shock to many a High Churchman, London's Church Times took a relatively calm view. "The question," it observed, "whether women are capable of receiving holy orders presents a complicated theological problem to which no easy answer can be given. Without doubt the matter will be brought up for consideration at the next Lambeth Conference, and equally without doubt the Conference will declare that this act was eminently well-pleasing to God and must never be repeated...
...moon would have to be one-third the height of the Empire State Building-apparently a practical impossibility. But war research has improved fuels and alloys, produced new high-flying antiaircraft rockets. Ley, anticipating further improvements, is sure that "the rocket to the moon is possible." With the impregnable calm common to astronauts, he observes: "The idea of space travel has by now reached a rather high state of perfection...