Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flew to Lexington, Ky., received his 26th honorary degree, and told 12,000 University of Kentucky students: "If you wish a sheltered and uneventful life, you are living in the wrong generation. No one can promise you calm, or ease, or undisturbed comfort. But we can promise you this. We can promise enormous challenge and arduous struggle, hard labor and great danger. And with them we can promise you triumph over all the enemies...
...forced to concede again that its own indispensable language is English. After meeting with the chief ministers of India's 16 states, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri reaffirmed in Parliament last week that English would continue to be an "associate" official language. By this promise Shastri hoped to calm the linguistic strife in South India, which has cost at least 60 lives and threatened to bring down his government...
...seemed farther than ever from fruition after another ludicrous sequence of coup and countercoup. The shooting war against the Viet Cong was relatively quiet, and President Johnson, despite his recent air reprisals against North Viet Nam for attacks on Ameri can personnel, now seemed willing to let matters calm down. But at home, the cries for negotiations leading to a withdrawal from Viet Nam came to crescendo...
Hong Kong's British garrison was put on the alert last week, and police leaves were canceled. Governor Sir David Trench appealed for calm over radio and TV. The stock market dipped. The crown colony was having something of a crisis, but it had nothing to do with the escalating warfare in South Viet Nam. It was caused instead by a run on a handful of Hong Kong's Chinese-owned banks...
...British ? 1 notes flown from the Bank of England by chartered jet, imposed a temporary $17.50-a-day limit on cash withdrawals. With another ? 35 million in bank notes scheduled to be flown from London soon, the run subsided by week's end. To dramatize its solvency and calm its customers, one Chinese bank used psychology: it piled a hoard of gold bars on the counter...