Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal day, he rises at 7, breakfasts lightly on fruit juice, tea and dry toast, then retires to his private chapel for morning prayers. By 9 he is in his study, reading the Madrid newspapers and the official reports stacked high on his large mahogany desk. The calm does not last long. At midmorning the palace is invaded by Franco's seven grandchildren (ages one to 14). Trailed by their English nanny, they race down the Pardo's wide granite corridors, past six-foot honor guards and enormous Goya tapestries, and burst into his study. Franco idolizes...
With his list, the President hoped to bring some peace and calm to his turbulent, bullet-pocked nation by ridding it of some of the forces that are pulling it apart. Instead, he nearly succeeded in triggering another coup. Loyalist troops sealed off the National Palace, took the government Radio Santo Domingo "into custody"; and the ultra-right-wing Radio San Isidro-shut down since last October-suddenly switched back on the air, accusing the government of opening the way to a Communist takeover. As Jeeps and combat vehicles rumbled once again through the streets, García-Godoy moved...
Perhaps it did not dawn on Morning Star that the courteous smiles she got from her countrymen concealed a healthy skepticism. The Japanese, like everyone else, know that calm has by no means returned to Indonesia. Since the Communists' coup attempt last September, the army has looked the other way while Moslem mobs killed at least 100,000 members and supporters of Indonesia's pro-Peking Communist Party. And now the purge was spreading south from Sumatra and Java to Bali. Nor was it the press of business that kept hubby at home; Sukarno is said to have...
...upgrade weak, racially-imbalance schools." The overemotional association of militancy with outside agitation aside, Mr. Koivumaki's argument fails to tell us how, without "stirring up agitation," school districts are to be forced to spend more in the ghetto. To an extent, the conservative penchant for order and calm muddies the logic of the article...
Still, with imaginative direction he might have squeaked by an inadequate set. He tried, in fact, to make the power of his cast's performance overcome the limits of his theatre, but he overshot his mark. His Andrew Undershaft, the devilish millionaire, should be a calm, self-assured, and enchanting British man of business. With Ronald Bishop as Undershaft, Criss creates a tasteless cross between an absent-minded lecher and a greasy, loudmouthed American tycoon. Undershaft should be civilized; Criss makes him vulgar. He should be easy, going; but in this version he thunders every other word...