Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band in a solo rumba routine known as the Golpe de Bibijajua (derived from the limping walk of one of North Africa's largest insects). The band is brassy and solid, without Cugat's high romantic perfumery. Machito accepted La Prensa's honors with almost arctic calm. Said he: "I was no surprised. Cugat, he is ... commercial...
Sample episode: the time is Oct. 23, 1942. The place is a stretch of desert before El Alamein. Two armies face each other which for two months have been recreating themselves in manpower and in material. The last preparations for combat intensify, and grow quiet. In blank black, a calm voice speaks: At Zero-minus-thirty the barrage begins. At the same moment the sappers will move for ward. . . . At 10 o'clock the infantry will advance. In quiet and darkness a single file of helmeted sappers goes up the line; next, bayonet-bearing infantry, slowly, then faster. These...
Whether, he's breaking the hearts of beautiful women, matter of factly beating up his double crossing fellow gangsters, or filing his nails with a hacksaw, Alan Ladd and his head of hair manage to remain calm and collected. Or perhaps the word is suave. But at any rate, "Lucky Jordan," which possesses neither a first rate plot nor a cast of any note, is a first rate film...
...beginning, few men who wrote the news, and fewer still who broadcast it, could resist the purple technique of dire warnings, manic-depressive cycles, sweeping prognostications. Many a news commentator offered his audience little more than a 15-minute nervous breakdown. Not so Elmer Davis. His voice was calm, incisive, with a Hoosier twang as reassuring as Thanksgiving, as shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground...
...quickly through Aurora's schools, went on to Indiana's Franklin College, where he picked up a nickname ("The Deacon") and every scholastic prize, got himself a Rhodes scholarship. Aurora's oldtimers, mightily impressed, still remember the day he left home for England: "He was so calm and businesslike you'd have thought he was just going up to Cincinnati...