Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night of the referendum, there were some sharp, ugly scenes in the Latin Quarter between police and students, but they were largely provoked by the flics, as though attempting to incite the Gaullist prophecy into reality. If that was the aim, it failed. France accepted the vacuum calmly, fascinated by the details of the transition, watching and waiting to see what would happen next. Interim President Alain Poher, a quiet, reassuring man, contributed to the calm as he moved swiftly and decisively to ensure against chaos...
...formally announced their respective candidacies for New York City mayor and city council president. What's more, they were serious about it. "We are sentimental about the past," said Mailer. "We want New York to thrive again, to be a city famous for the charm, ferocity, elegance, strength, calm and racy character of its separate neighborhoods." The Mailer-Breslin plan is to detach the city from New York State and make it a city-state of its own, organized on the basis of homogeneous neighborhoods that would run their own schools, garbage collection, police and fire departments. The proposal...
...Calm Qunisigamond...
Most important is the fact that Lake Quinsigamond should be quite calm compared to the choppy Schuylkill. Both coxes had to struggle to keep their boats off a collision course. Harvard's oars kept slapping the foot-high waves, and this up- set the balance essential to a top performance...
...delighted most of the reading public and hit one part of the public--black militants--in a spot so sore that they responded in print. Possibly only individual memoirs have provoked similar reactions, and those from a much smaller group of people. "No novel," Styron says with that heavy calm that makes irony sound imperial instead of petty, "has ever been accorded the extraordinary accolade of having a whole book written about it as soon as it was published...