Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuba. Actually, said some knowledgeable Bonn hands, der Alte wouldn't know a missile site from a swimming pool, but he was impressed. In the end. Adenauer gave Kennedy's action his full endorsement in a nationwide TV broadcast. In West Berlin, inured to crisis and calm except for housewives who rushed to stock up on food, Mayor Willy Brandt was delighted by Washington's toughness and described Kennedy's move as "earnest, courageous, determined and reasonable...
...Nash has introduced the meeting, pleading for "calm reasonableness." Todd Gitlin, Tocsin's chairman, talks of "Harvard's air of complete isolation." He is interrupted by thunderous knocks on the firmly closed outer doors. The audience giggles happily, but it has calmed down: it is that part of the service where the curate pauses to read a few comfortable parish announcements. Meanwhile the Macbeth-like knocks continue...
...they ought to leave. They hiss again, and stay. The rest of the audience applauds, and stays too. "This situation did not arise last Tuesday; the moment was deliberately chosen," Moore declares. "All this rallying behind the President is the utter abdication of democracy." Thunderous applause. His manner is calm, almost hesitant, highly academic...
While I admit that in certain respects we could have done much more, during the week before the riot as the crisis was mounting, many faculty members took much class time to talk to our students of the necessity for calm and respect for law and order. The week after the riot, we intensified our efforts to impress on our students the fact that (as the University A.A.U.P. chapter put it) "riots, weapons, and agitators have no place at a university...
...public at large, Britons have long been notably calm and patient about strikes. Yet there was some grumbling fortnight ago. when the railwaymen brought trains throughout the country to a dead halt and millions of commuters skipped work rather than try their luck on the highways. Slowly but surely, disenchantment with the unions is growing. In a 1954 Gallup poll, only 12% of the British public considered unions bad-by 1959 the figure had nearly doubled to 23%; Says ..George Woodcock, one of the leaders of the Trades Union Congress: "We have lost the general sympathy that the public usually...