Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweaty, dirty Harvardman will receive a kiss from a cool, collected, and supposedly calm Wellesley beauty on Sunday...
Happy & Not Unhappy. That left the hand-holding to be asked about. Reporters trooped into President Eisenhower's press conference to fire question after question on Dulles' failure to stand behind Stassen. The President was calm. He didn't think that McCarthy was really trying to take over the executive's responsibility for negotiating international agreements. How could McCarthy or anyone negotiate if he had nothing to commit? He didn't think that McCarthy's act, even if it were an error, was serious enough to undermine the State Department's efforts. Perhaps...
Early to Rise. Benson has taken command of his vastly complex task with the calm assurance of an able administrator, the energy and prayerful devotion of a Mormon missionary. A committee worker who believes, like every good Mormon, in cooperative endeavor, he has already streamlined the huge Agriculture Department so that only four men, instead of 20, report directly to him. Up at 5 and usually in his spacious, paneled office by 7:30 or 8, Benson starts most working days with a round of handshakes; he has met about one-third of the 8,000 Agriculture employees who work...
...Washington, "that the university has always been a forum in the presence of which the lords of the passing hour are subjected to scrutiny. No doubt the time has come to ask on what meat this our Caesar has fed, and to review his activities with the utmost objectivity, calm and chilly resolution, so that an authoritative report can be made to the people...
...possessing a creative confidence, a mental perfection and a rigor of expression belonging to the most accomplished and the most experienced, an artist who has given up all the illusions of youth." The esthetes rolled their eyes. "He dominated us all," says Jean Cocteau, "by his wisdom, his calm, and the clairvoyance of his myopic eyes turned inward...