Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While 1,000 cops and soldiers were still searching the district, President Batista put on a show of unruffled calm and laid the cornerstone for a new municipal hospital. At the same time Cubans added a new word to their vocabularies, inspired by Aureliano Sánchez Arango's fifth escape from arrest: it was aurelianada, meaning an escape carried out in a hairbreadth, spine-tingling manner...
...Stall 2 of the paddock, Owner Vanderbilt and Trainer Winfrey talk casually with visitors. The tack is carried in, and as Winfrey pulls tight the cinch belt the Dancer rears. The crowd gasps, but the horse, icy calm again in a moment, is saddled and led to the walking ring. Instructions to Guerin are simple: "Ride him with confidence...
Though given to rough playfulness that can easily hurt a man (he once blacked Winfrey's eye merely by lifting a knee while the trainer was inspecting his ankle), the Dancer stands stone calm as the groom sponges off the sleek grey hide and gives the legs a liniment wash. "He knows me lak' a book," says Murray. "An' I knows him. We gets along." Mutters a visitor: "That guy sure has faith in that grey horse." Now almost finished, Murray takes hold of the dark grey tail and pulls his 200-plus pounds to his feet. "That...
MacLeish then credited Harvard's calm decision with saving other universities from surrendering their rights as free institutions and helping to prevent the United States from a form of society in which "things of the mind are regulated by the central state...
...Hanoi, 50,000 (mostly shaky Vietnamese) elsewhere in the delta, and they were desperately flying in reinforcements from southern Indo-China and from France and North Africa (via U.S. airlift). Commanding General Navarre reportedly asked Paris for two fresh divisions, yet his officers did their best to appear calm and unconcerned. Said Navarre's top deputy in Hanoi last week: "The situation in the delta is serious, but not desperate." French generals said exactly that during the last days at Dienbienphu...