Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Matter of Face. It is possible that this is indeed what distresses the Reds-that their fake incidents are simply to regain face. That is Washington's interpretation. If anything else is in prospect, General James Van Fleet is calmly ready for the enemy. "He can't bring into this battle line and support enough troops to defeat the Eighth Army," he said. "We would consider it a great opportunity if they were to attack. If [the G.I.s] have to start fighting again, they will have a new hatred for the enemy. They will be an eager army...
...Calm Rebuttal. The State Department countered this rebuff with a calm but uncompromising rebuttal. It regretted that "India is not disposed to join this united effort for peace," quoted Japanese Premier Yoshida to the effect that the treaty "reflects abundantly American fairness, magnanimity and idealism," and argued that no peace treaty is possible "unless the nations are willing to accept what, to each, may seem, imperfections...
...scale casualties did not seem small to the men who were hit or who saw comrades fall. Assuming peace was possible, no man coveted the distinction of being last man on the casualty list. The attitude of the troops toward the Kaesong negotiations was mixed. Some, showing a monumental calm bordering on indifference, were fatalists who counted more on rotation than on a cease-fire to get them out of the fighting. Others hung eagerly on every day's news from Kaesong...
...found Mrs. Emile LaBorde and family, who had faced the flood with oldtimers' calm (she baked a berry pie after most of their neighbors had fled), then left everything behind and ridden a rescue boat to a disaster station, where they thought of little but the opportunity to get back to their home...
...Leaders. Durable, level-headed Konrad Adenauer is undoubtedly the best available Chancellor for the Germans. To a people weary of bombast, Adenauer makes calm speeches; to a people fearful of the state, he gives unobtrusive administration. His chief stock in trade is still his shrewd knack for compromise. Rather than have the workers grow restive, Adenauer, the conservative Christian-Democrat, has given trade unions more responsibility than they ever had in Germany. In order to keep former soldiers from deserting to the radical Right, Adenauer the antimilitarist courteously receives influential former generals...