Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Tories preserve the health program (that invention of the arch-fiend, Bevan) intact, administer the nationalized industries with the zeal they have promised and point directly to rearmament as the cause of the recent slump in British recovery, the critics may calm down for a while. They will explain to their readers that the Conservatives just aren't like Midwest-ern Republicans, in spite of their name, and that the whole mess shows that once you vote in socialists, you're stuck with them forever...
...Desecration and mockery," protested the Russians. But the Norwegians remained quite calm. No effort, they said last week, would be spared to make the new cemeteries worthy memorials...
Inside the Harvard dressing room, the delighted squad was relatively subdued, apparently determined to accept its hard-earned victory with proper Harvard calm...
...afford to ignore this book." Neither will the graduates nor the administration for that matter. Each one of Buckley's accusations will have to be countered in some manner. And since the book deals with personalities at the college, Yale will not be able to keep up the comparative calm that exists there...
...Henry replied in kind:' "We are fighting militant Communism and we intend to finish it off." With calm assurance, he urged planters and tin miners to stay at their posts. He pleaded with Whitehall for more troops, built up the native army from four to six battalions, and launched a vast resettlement scheme to separate the Communists from their sources of supply. His men razed whole villages for aiding the Reds and penned up 120,000-Malayan Chinese. He constantly left his snug headquarters at Kuala Lumpur to roam the jungles in his car, his official red-striped pennant...