Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fellow countrymen watched with calmness the butchering of Armenians, for decades -while Turkey was a British ally. They bore patiently through the years the sufferings of the Hindu, while England bled white that rich nation. They exhibited stoic calm while the Irish were starved, killed, ground down. The same calm was exhibited in the case of the Boers, and while the Russian ally of Britain was knocking off some million Christians. But now, NOW, the villain is an enemy -and a much and rightly feared one-of England, and hark to the uproar...
Hopkins. No paler, no more haggard than usual, Harry Hopkins stepped to the witness chair knowing that, unlike Frankfurter and Murphy, he was going to receive a going-over. With an air of deliberate calm he lit cigaret after cigaret; inhaled deeply; exhaled slowly; looked saturninely at his questioners from lowered brows; stroked his jaw; hunched his shoulders; thrust out his chin-a homely figure...
...reporters was besieging everyone with questions. Through it all,--the quarter-mile race that clinched the meet for Brown, the ovation that followed it, and the tiring session with representatives of the press afterwards--the man who was bearing the heaviest burden of the loss was standing erect and calm, surprisingly unruffled...
...with the last syllable strongly accented. In appearance they have large, somewhat square heads to make room for their huge brains. They also have high, slanting foreheads, under which a receding chin (which extends to their tall) begins almost immediately. When questioned as to why the fish appeared so calm and showed no sign of nervousness, supposed to be one of their chief characteristics, the doctor pointed out that their movements to and fro are of such rapidity that they could not be seen. He reluctantly admitted that he had added a few buckets of gelatin to their water...
...temperament and conviction, whose intimate friend Julius Streicher publishes Der Stunner, the grossly fanatical No. 1 anti-Semitic newsorgan of the world. No. 3 Nazi Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels is a part-time virtuoso of antiSemitism, using his Ministry for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment alternately to incite and to calm German anti-Semitic mobs. And No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm GÖring is a ruthless German activist who signs the most drastic anti-Semitic decrees and has them legally enforced by the courts, the police and the army...