Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government of India has arrested and imprisoned Gandhi for criminal breeches of law. They now permit him to hold cabinet councils with his fellow conspirators in jail, while the great governing organism, upon whose calm strength the lives and livelihood of uncounted millions depend, wait cap in hand outside the cell door, hoping to wheedle a few kind words out of their prisoner...
...passenger to New York from the devastated area in Italy told how William Guard, longtime press agent for the Metropolitan Opera, immediately after the temblors mounted a balcony of his hotel half-dressed, played on a flute to calm the terror-stricken populace milling below...
After weeks of agitation and uncertainty eight potent officers of the Republican Party met Claudius Hart Huston, chairman of the Republican National Committee, at Washington headquarters last week. They were determined to wrestle him out of his job. Chairman Huston, calm and cool in white flannels, talked blandly, smiled disarmingly upon them from the head of a long shiny table. There was no wrestling. The eight potent Republicans departed, looking more sheepish than elephantine. Mr. Huston was still mahout. He might resign after the treaty session of the Senate?or he might not. The issue was as unsettled as ever...
...many ways ?one that made it hard for the yachtsmen peering through glasses from the committee boat to tell which contender they liked best. In the windward and leeward tests, Enterprise was at its best in a light breeze, swift into the wind but slow off it. In calm weather on the third day of racing she beat Whirlwind nicely, but her victory over Yankee in the fourth race did not mean much as Yankee's jib ripped open on the second leg. The men on the committee boat did not see the jib tear and were surprised when...
...Metre. At Gothenburg, Sweden, six-metre boats of seven nations began a series for the Scandinavian Gold Cup. The first day was so calm that the winner took more than the limit of four hours for the course, and the race had to be sailed over. This time a terrific squall delayed the start. Sweden got the best start; the Dutch boat blanketed the U. S. Ripple and Sweden stayed in front. In the third race the Ripple made a long beat to port while the Swedish yacht was off to starboard, came round the first buoy on the second...