Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Timesman. Milton Bracker, who visited the hospital last week, noticed that the patients remain calm, even when planes roar overhead. Veterinarians say they can tell that a mule is in pain only by the expression in his eyes or by a quivering muscle. Only the "shellshocked" animals make any noise. A wounded animal first gets an antitetanus shot in the neck. Then metal fragments are removed and wounds dressed under anesthesia on a ten-by-ten-foot operating table covered with rubber. As in the U.S., there is a feed shortage. Instead of hay, the animal patients get. along...
...weeks the enemy inched closer to Loyang. But every day from the city's radio station a calm Chinese voice spoke of the firm will to resist. Men built barricades, fought behind them as the Japs drove into the 2,700-year-old city...
...model, he would paint pants on her one day, paint them off the next. He gave his nude a musing, pastoral face and the rosy-brown, gently diffused flesh of warm-weather drowsiness. Against the barn's sober timbers, earth floor and haymow, she has the calm glow of a lamp in daylight...
Over Munich three P-47s shot down a German fighter. But one of the Thunderbolts had taken a bad hit. Just before his ship crashed, Lieut. John F. Hayden, of Newton Center, Mass., radioed a calm, heart-wrenching message to his mates: "My arm is shot off-I'm going...
Through it all Commando Kelly remained calm but not displeased. At week's end he had sold his life story to the Saturday Evening Post for $15,000 and movie rights to a story about his family for $25,000. He sank the $15,000 into a trust fund for his mother, and arranged to buy her a house...