Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While a holiday calm settled over most chancelleries and financial centers, Britain had no respite from the Labor government's continuing difficulties with business and the badly shaken economy. Last week the Bank of England was forced to move in for the second time in as many weeks to support the pound against renewed selling pressure abroad. Foreigners, not wanting to be stuck with pounds in the event of devaluation, were finding buyers in advance for pounds that they expect to receive over the next few months. The central bank had to use as much as $56 million...
...Minister also softened his earlier denunciation of the surface fleet concept. He is not opposed to "mixed manning"; he only objects to "any proposals which recommend dropping the fundamental American veto" over the firing of nuclear weapons. Wilson's insistence on such a U.S. veto was meant to calm British fears that West Germany might get its finger on the nuclear trigger through MLF. Johnson assured him that the U.S. will retain its veto in any event...
...Majestic Quietude." After an experiment Cohen himself conducted, a doctor wrote: "I had read that a number of people have a painful catatonic withdrawal. I fancied that I would be a catatonic . . . The first change was one of pleasant relaxation. This increased to an indescribable mood of great calm and peace. The problems and strivings, the worries and frustrations of everyday life vanished; in their place was a majestic, sunlit, heavenly inner quietude ... I seemed to have finally arrived at the contemplation of the eternal truth." The doctor suffered numbness and shivering so severe that he needed three blankets...
...competitors in 1962 by holding the price line during the steel crisis. Although he recently came out for steel price rises now, Block is realistic enough to admit that "I don't think there is much likelihood of an across-the-board increase any time soon." He is calm about defending his market-a market he knows the way the old-time grocer knew his customers-and he promises: "We shall give a very good account of ourselves." As usual, everyone in Pittsburgh knows exactly what Joe Block means...
...perhaps the power of his proposal lies in its modesty. Conant's recommendations, as they have come out, have been immediately respected, and the chance that these latest will be put into effect are very great. This possibility is reflected in his style: calm, facty, occasionally tiresome for its quantity of detail. But it displays a pragmatic realism that is immediately convincing. His meticulous details leave no room for question. His interstate planning commission has been so concretely described (he even mentions the necessary time lag between its beginning surveys and its acting on them), that even as he describes...