Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rasp slipped into Georges Bidault's calm voice. "Indo-China is not one of the preconditions [to EDC approval]. If you want to construe it to be one, then you must replace me as a Foreign Minister...
Prime Minister Menzies tried to calm the public outcry over her departure by announcing that Mme. Petrov made no appeal for sanctuary to Australian officials at the airport. Besides, said he, if she wanted to stay, she would get another chance when the plane (bound for Zurich) touched down at Darwin. Menzies was as good as his word. At Darwin, Australian police boarded the plane, disarmed two Russian couriers who were traveling with her-they had .32 revolvers in shoulder holsters-and took Evdokia aside for a 45-minute private talk with a government official. This time...
...Indo-China to surround the monument. The garrison of Paris will have to be there for honors and the sounding of trumpets, the glorious police of Paris to keep order. All of us ... will speak not a single word, will utter not a single cry. Above the calm of this immense silence will float the soul of France...
...diatribe against the Khazars (i.e., Jews), who, Beaty insists, were largely responsible for the triumph of Communism in Russia. Apparently, the Khazars also practically captured the Democratic Party, helped drive the U.S. into an "unnecessary war" with Germany ("the historic bulwark of Christian Europe"), watched with cruel calm the slaughter of "as many as possible of the world-ruling and Khazar-hated race of 'Aryans.' " Everyone from Justice Brandeis to Anna M. Rosenberg was brought under fire. "Who is it," asked Beaty at one point, "that enjoys the highest military position held by woman since Joan...
...Whitney Museum, where her one entry in the Whitney's annual roundup of contemporary watercolors, drawings and sculpture overshadowed most of the 180 other exhibits. Its subject matter was simply a series of unrecognizable, vaguely amoebic shapes. What made the drawing stand out was its haunting mood of calm and mystery, like a sky hung with changing clouds...