Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wing is on fire!" Mrs. William Richmond, who was filming the takeoff from her right-window seat over the wing, kept right on shooting as the wing erupted in flames. A few rows behind her, James Krick aimed his still camera at the disintegrating wing. Others were not so calm. The four-and six-year-old daughters of Kaleo Schroder, a Richmond, Calif., schoolteacher, burst into frightened tears. Two older women became hysterical. Minoru Fujioka, a civilian worker at Pearl Harbor who was on the way home after enrolling his son in the Air Force Academy, prayed "for the first...
...sounds far more believable in his demands for austerity than his predecessors did. Moreover, he has an air of no-nonsense realism that has been sadly lacking in South Viet Nam. To Saigon newsmen's howls of outrage over his newspaper shutdown, Ky replied with icy calm: "Communists don't shout, they shoot. If I don't yield to the Communists, I certainly will not yield to shouters...
...measure of the market's uncertainty was the unwarranted attention it continued to pay to even the remotest news event or speech. Washington kept on trying to calm that uncertainty. After lying low for a while, William McChesney Martin Jr., who helped to precipitate the sharp market drop with his speech citing similarities between the current economic situation and that of the 1920s, joined the calming team. President Johnson had him conspicuously on hand when he signed the excise-tax-cut bill, passed him one of the pens. Next day, Johnson trotted out Martin (along with several Cabinet officers...
Governor Dan Moore called for "calm and judicial consideration of the problem," but last week, by proposing that a committee study the issue this summer, he blocked a drive in the legislature to modify...
...week. There, once again, were the Skyraiders of Air Force Commander Nguyen Cao Ky circling the capital on the lookout for armored columns; there stood the government tanks in a protective cordon around national police headquarters; and there came the worried voice of the Premier over the radio, urging calm and asking help from all to "eliminate the traitors so as to maintain the stability which is necessary for final victory." Another coup had been nipped...