Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moppies were especially designed to knife through the usually choppy, churning seas. Last week Bertram was back with a brand-new, 38-ft. "heavy weather" boat powered by twin 550-h.p. General Motors diesels. But where was the weather? The 183-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau was as calm as a Palm Beach swimming pool. "Any ski boat could win this race," sneered one disgruntled skipper as 46 competitors lined up for the start...
...cozy 5,200 r.p.m., Aronow sashayed over the glassy Bahama flats at a steady 55 knots, crossed the finish line in 3 hrs. 19 min. 36 sec.-slicing 45 sec. off the race record. "I could have made it in three hours flat," shrugged Aronow, "the sea was so calm." So calm, in fact, that 007 still showed the dirty footprints that somebody had left on her bow back in Miami. Even at 66 knots, 007 had not churned up enough spray to wet the deck...
...from starving, our friend said; he had diagnosed the student's condition as extreme yang and fed him yin foods. When he died at the Institute a week before Christmas, he weighed 90 pounds, although he was nearly six feet tall. Our friend seemed to accept his death with calm resolve...
...past record of passivity and neutralism. We went as American citizens deploring and protesting Wallace's disfiguration of American democracy. In Montgomery we discovered another reason for being present. Justice Department men encouraged us to join the march on the county courthouse on March 17 to help calm the demonstrators and to deter possible brutality from police and citizenry...
...Your cartoon depicts a crowd haranguer and a fanatic, and shows nothing of the Christian sensibilities and calm self-restraint that have made him a Nobel Peace Prizewinner and an effective leader. M. D. BLUE...