Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minh did not go all the way to Versailles to badger the Allies. He went as a calm young patriot who wanted to point out to the Big Four the importance of understanding what was going on in Indo-China. They wouldn't even see him. He turned the other way only because they pushed...
Instead of clicking faster than they did the year before, the turnstiles are revolving as sluggishly as a windmill on a calm day. Some skeptics predict that the Fair may end up as much as $50 million in the red by the time it closes on October 17. Attendance, instead of increasing by 37% as Moses had predicted, has fallen off 30% from last year. Though some exhibitors took heart when 13,469 more people showed up this Fourth of July weekend than last, the fact remains that 78,059 more people showed up the same weekend at Palisades Amusement...
...Waiter is a very funny play, and Director Robert Chapman has chosen to emphasize its comic aspects--at the expense of just about everything else. Gus, played by K. Lype O'Dell, is a perfect buffoon throughout the play. Ben(David Meneghel) is more the prototype of the cool, calm professional killer, but he eventually is caught up in volatile arguments with Gus about absolutely trivial subjects. If The Dumb Waiter were only a funny play, if Pinter were capable of nothing more than writing funny dialogue, one could scarcely have found fault with O'dell's or Meneghel...
...most part, though, the passengers displayed an amazing presence of mind. Martin Myers, a retired oil-company employee from Media, Pa., who was on a tour with fellow Lions Club members, found himself so impressed by Captain Kimes's calm-voiced announcement that he switched on his portable tape recorder, caught Second Officer Max Webb's emergency-landing instructions to the passengers: ". . . If we use the chutes, please stay calm. Remember, you will sit down to go out the chute. Don't panic . . . When we do land, and if it is a rough landing-which...
Though government radio broadcasts urged the Chinese of Sarawak to remain calm and loyal, the raiders had done their work well. "Nobody is talking," said a senior police officer...