Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inexperienced B.C. freshmen tried frantically to score. The Crimson remained calm, but were unable to get past the aggressively forechecking opposition...
Provocative Hawk. This calm was rudely shattered two weeks ago by what began as a routine police action by Greek Cypriots. Fearing that Turkish villages were becoming enclaves through which free passage would eventually be denied, Archbishop Makarios decided to reassert his government's authority by ordering a resumption of patrols by Greek Cypriot police in two predominantly Turkish villages about 30 miles south of Nicosia. Unfortunately, the direction of the operation was entrusted to the wrong man: Lieut. General George Grivas. While Makarios seems to favor an independent Cyprus with friendly relations with Greece, Grivas, the island...
...world took the fall of the pound with considerable calm. Predictably, 22 other nations devalued their currencies -generally by amounts in line with Britain's painful decision to shrink the value of her pound by 14.3%, from $2.80 to $2.40. The world's major trading countries-the U.S., Japan, Canada, Australia and the Common Market-rerained from retaliatory devaluations. The pound steadied on the money market and comparative tranquillity replaced the turmoil of the week before...
...shower at the Romneys' Bloomfield Hills home. For reasons that go beyond personal affection, Romney's aides are hoping she mends swiftly. Lenore is a considerable asset on the stump, provides a warmly feminine counterpoint to her husband's granite-jawed, combative style, and helps calm him when the going gets rough...
...Calm and seemingly cool in 90° heat, the young woman walked down the red carpet at Pnompenh's Pochentong Airport, escorted by Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, all smiles and a torrent of French. An exotically garbed palace guard held a giant green parasol over their heads to screen them from the afternoon sun, and 200 schoolgirls in bright green sampots, the traditional skirts, sprinkled her path with fragrant rose and jasmine petals, which they carried in silver bowls-the Buddhist way, explained Sihanouk, of honoring very special guests...