Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more typical of his personality was the calm, winning grace with which he carried through the exhausting ritual of his visit-and with which he happily departed from protocol when the spirit moved him. There was visible friendship and affection in the two-handed gesture with which he saluted crowds, in the avuncular kiss with which he rewarded a child...
...locked each night in crude wooden stocks, helpless to do anything more than curse when rats ran across their bodies, even more helpless to care for themselves when dysentery and bladder infections racked their bodies. Sanity hung by such threads as U.S. Special Forces Orville Roger Ballenger's calm recital each night of the 23rd Psalm, the creation of a deck of playing cards with tissue paper smuggled past the guards. Above all, they were sustained by the American determination not to crack under the Communist pressure...
...good men here, just as there are bad men. There are competent leaders and a bungler here and there. We have activists who risk their lives to confront a people with the challenge of freedom and a nation with its conscience. We have neutralists who cautiously seek to calm troubled waters. We have the men about the work of reconciliation who are willing to reflect upon the cost...
...objective," said New Premier Stephanopoulos, "is to confront serious economic and social problems and restore peace and calm in the country." Yet he can scarcely repeal any of Papandreou's costly programs without enhancing his canny old opponent still more in the eyes of the voters-and sooner or later, as both Stephanopoulos and King Constantine know, there will have to be a general election to put Papandreou's demands to the test...
...years' experience as a prisoner of Communism, Czechoslovakia's Josef Cardinal Beran suggested that the church is suffering today in expiation for its past sins against religious liberty-such as the burning of the 15th century heretic, Jan Hus. And Belgian Bishop Emile De Smedt helped calm conservative fears by arguing that just as other council actions had gone well beyond earlier church teachings, the statement on liberty was a necessary way for the church to advance with the times...