Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cocktails started a dozen fires while looters pillaged stores. Having learned their lesson in August, when police initially pulled out in hope that the violence would die down, more than 200 cops swept through the streets in prowl cars or twelve abreast on foot. After four hours, a tenuous calm was restored. The toll: two dead, 26 injured, 34 arrested, 15 buildings damaged...
...pledge to shoot war profiteers, Chinese Merchant Ta Vinh was executed at dawn by a firing squad. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge also met with Thich Tri Quang to caution moderation. To quell the demonstrations in the north, Ky sent the ousted General Thi back to I Corps to calm and reassure his own disappointed supporters, who included many of the soldiers in the two divisions he commanded there. It was a risky move: in his speeches Thi was obviously torn between a desire to rally support for a comeback and his soldier's distaste for adding to dissension...
When the office of the dean of freshmen placed its order for an ex-executive secretary, it undoubtedly read: "send a motherly-looking woman to calm frightened freshmen confronting the powers-that-be for the first time...
...quivering admiration simply is too great to be contained. The reader never really grasps what lies behind the De Gaulle mystique; he is merely reassured in passage after adulatory passage that it is there like a towering, providential Alp, and that De Gaulle is correct when he states with "calm certainty that he is the State and, it may not be too much to say, France herself...
...policy-making and capricious personal judgments," said Reston. Sulzberger saw a much different man. "On the surface," he wrote, a casual observer might see an "air of precipitate haste that accompanies presidential decisions when new crises erupt. But underlying such agitation there also appears to be a remark ably calm resolve not to be provoked by minor pinpricks nor to be impelled toward holocaust by local explosions...