Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many voters were beaten up as they entered or left polling places. Street fights were staged. Half a dozen ballot boxes were stolen. Clerks and judges of election were intimidated with revolvers. Two men were killed, and finally, at 6:00 p. m., when all was beginning to be calm again, ten car loads of detectives from Chicago descended upon the town, dashed down a street crowded with factory workers, opened fire on James Caponi, killed...
Briand returns. A too idyllic calm marked the Cabinet session at which Foreign Minister Briand reported upon his tentative negotiations with Foreign Minister Stresemann of the Reich at Thoiry (TIME, Sept. 27). M. Briand, apostle of international concord, secured from M. Poincare, exponent of militant French nationalism, acceptance in principle of the proposed Franco-German compromise: 1) France to evacuate the Rhineland in 1927, return the Saar to Germany in 1928, and withdraw all opposition to the purchase by Germany from Belgium of Eupen and Malmedy; 2) Germany to transfer to France for these concessions four billion francs...
...before, seasoned "salts" had noted two curious phenomena. In a flat calm, monster oily waves swept up to the beach, boomed hollowly like bushmen's drums. This was the "dead" swell caused by heavy weather no great distance away. The other occurrence, more inexplicable, was the leaping of porpoises,* long considered by seamen a storm augury. Seasoned "salts" had sought shelter...
...they are vastly more destructive. The centre is sometimes almost motionless, whereas the outside rim attains the greatest speed in exactly the same manner that the outside rim of any circular object-a wheel, for example-travels faster than any point nearer the centre. Hence seamen invariably reach a calm spot when fighting their way through these hurricanes...
...Again God has saved Italy! Mussolini is unhurt. From his post of command, to which he returned immediately with the superb calm which no event can change, he has given us the order: No reprisals...