Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initial calm and generally welcoming acceptance of the King's speech in the Congo, many Belgiums feared that their government may have waited too long to make its offer. In Léopoldville Belgian paratroopers still patrolled the streets, hundreds of whites are keeping revolvers handy, and as long as the city's three top burgomasters (all black) remained in jail, disorder might strike at any time. Warned the Gazet van Antwerpen: "With oppressed hearts we wonder whether the people who yesterday stood against each other as enemies will be able to collaborate...
...uncertain art, often humbly change their judgments. But when an opinion can determine whether a painting is worth $10 or $100,000, some modern experts try to envelop their trade with the accouterments of more exact sciences, strive to test problematic works with a chemist's lofty calm. Some refuse to see the picture itself, arguing that an emotional response may confuse their judgment, and rely on analysis of paint and photographic blowups that show telltale idiosyncracies of style. Others claim such infallibility that they authenticate paintings just by inspecting a black-and-white photograph. Last week such arrogance...
...Fifth Republic, Frenchmen could see much undone, but also much under way. And one thing deserved a cheer. "For the first time in our history," said René Coty in his farewell speech, "a revolution, a necessary and constructive revolution, has been carried out in a spirit of calm and respect for the laws...
Placid Space. The best way to think of space as a navigable medium is to imagine the frictionless surface of a calm, glassy pond. Small objects drift across it easily, propelled by feeble forces. Scattered at wide intervals over the mirror surfaces are deep, sucking whirlpools. If a floating leaf drifts close to one of them, it plunges down to the bottom. A self-powered object, say a water insect, that gets sucked into a whirlpool has a terrible time battling back to the surface...
Much of this progress has come under President Beise, 60, a Minnesota doctor's son who is as calm and unruffled as the late Bank of America Founder A. P. Giannini was irascible and temperamental. Beise (rhymes with icy) joined the Bank of America in 1936 at Giannini's invitation after an early career in banking, took over as president in 1954. So wrapped up is he in his job that he has given up all outside hobbies (except gardening). His chief task has been to transform the bank from the temperamental, one-man bailiwick of autocratic...