Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his present-day pose of calm equanimity, John was once the focal point of a hot controversy. When, on Commencement Day in 1883, General Samuel J. Bridges donated a fund for the erection of a statue to John Harvard's memory, the inevitable question was raised: How does one make a statue of the chap when one doesn't know what he looks like...
...first reaction to the implication that his promise to go to Korea was only a campaign trick was unprintable, but his telegraphed answer was a calm statement that he would try to make arrangements quickly to have a personal representative meet with the Director of the Budget. Ike added: "Any suitable transport plane that one of the services could make available will be satisfactory for my planned trip to Korea...
Morandi has been preoccupied with empty bottles of all sizes and shapes for most of his adult life. This time, only one of his creamy pictures is of bottles. The other two: a still life of oyster shells, a landscape as calm and peaceful as the countryside around Morandi's native Bologna...
...would have been for you to place at the entrance of the theaters where this film was to have been shown members of your race with handbills to distribute to the patrons as they enter. In these handbills (which could be mimeographed at small cost) you could present a calm and well-reasoned statement as to why your organization finds the film objectionable, and cautioning the patrons to watch for those aspects of the film which you feel are overtly intended or have the effect to be prejudicial to the Negro. After all, despite these apparently objectionable scenes, this film...
Last night, after 149 days of violent storm and placid calm, the Miru motored to its berth in the lower Charles River. Brigadier General James S. Simmons, dean of the School of Public Health, welcomed his student to Boston. Another person who shook Davis' hand was an old longshoreman, who left his job last night just to meet the New Zealander. He said he once sailed the South Pacific in mid-winter and knows "the courage it takes...