Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took off in the early afternoon with clouded mountains beckoning; by darkness we had crossed into Jap-held territory. The Superfortress' four big engines throbbed rhythmically under the careful hands of her pilot, 26-year-old Captain Robert Root. Beside him, watchful and calm, was his copilot, blond Lieut. Clifford Anderson. I sat on the cold escape hatch just opposite Lieut. Peter Coury, the flight engineer, who kept steady watch on his multitude of instruments...
...Physics. I just sunk my teeth into the juiciest problem you ever saw, when "Bang Bang, Bwrrr-Bwrrr?Bwrrr," Cambridge starts drilling holes in Cambridge Street outside. After three-quarters of an hour of this, they carted me away to Stillman in a shoebox, kicking and screaming. I'm calm now, but I've got three more exams this week...
...stab and flicker over Europe until Nazi Germany is down. Similar conferences had been held twice a clay for three days. On the preceding Saturday the operation had even been ordered, then canceled again almost immediately, when the weather took a sudden turn for the worse. That, even the calm Tedder admitted, had been "pretty nerve-racking." But this time there would be no turning back. Ike's Plan. The plan that General Eisenhower set in motion had its genesis in the dark days after the rescue of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. Then it was little more...
...guerilla maquis of southeastern France struck their hardest blows. They raided Grenoble, wrecked the rail junction at Bellegarde. In Marseilles, great port on the alerted, invasion-jittery Mediterranean, the Germans used tanks to quell demonstrators. The Nazis denied reports that Paris was seething. The capital, they said, was so calm that its curfew had been extended from midnight to 1 a.m. But they spoke of arresting hundreds of "Communists" and two shopkeepers who were ready to sell British flags for the day of liberation. Everywhere resistance groups, now designated by the Algiers Government as the French Forces...
...beachhead interview with a Brooklyn sailor who had helped bring the first wave over. Another, which was repeated over & over again by U.S. networks, had everything. It was an account of the Nazi bombing of the U.S. flagship (probably a cruiser) Hicks was aboard during the Channel crossing. His calm description of the scene was accompanied by the sound of the ship's ack-ack guns, the gunfire from nearby ships,'the calling of all hands to General Quarters, the excited comments of the gun crew making their first kill, the hurt shriek of a wounded German plane diving toward...