Word: calmed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Movie theater owners immediately set up a howl of protest, but Hollywood, though usually thrown into a tizzy by any governmental move, remained surprisingly calm. Viewing the Justice Department action as more foolish than threatening, moviemen pointed out that the case might drag on through the courts for as long as ten years-long enough for Hollywood and TV to come to an understanding of their own. And, even if the Government should win, moviemen felt that their position was impregnable. Said an M-G-M spokesman: "Suppose the Government ordered you to sell Mutiny on the Bounty...
...killer, or patients may live for years and die of some disease which has nothing to do with the state of their blood vessels. Because doctors know that emotional strain is often a big factor in the life of such a patient, they try to cheer him up and calm him down...
...persuade the Air Force to order two prototypes. When the planes were put through their tests this spring, they did better than the estimates. And Bill Allen, whose company has had more ups & downs in the last seven years than a crop-dusting airplane, was finally flying in calm...
...While Elder Statesman Dulles was steering the foreign-policy course, one of the convention's youngest and prettiest delegates was the central figure in a struggle over civil rights. Mrs. Mildred Younger, a 31-year-old Los Angeles housewife, presided over the civil-rights subcommittee with an intelligent, calm hand, asked witnesses piercing questions which showed that her political experience extended far beyond the chicken-patty circuit of most women politicians. The daughter of a California lobbyist for public-school teachers and the wife of a lawyer, she was no stranger to proceedings of this kind. Said...
Across Balbo* Avenue in his headquarters at the Conrad Hilton, Taft was also watching the ballot on TV. In defeat, the man who had tried so long and hard to be President was calm and collected. But all over Taft headquarters, women workers were in tears...