Word: calmed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Danish landscape is fat with a mild, monotonous beauty. The mentality is solid, calm and apparently healthy. But the psychical monotony in a strong mind creates depression. Remember that the inhabitants of these countries in olden days set out on the high seas as rough pirates...
...restore order, the Vatican radio, broadcasting from an antechamber off the Pope's bedroom, stepped up its reports. In a calm voice, the Rev. Francesco Pellegrino, S.J., projected such a sense of immediacy ("I have just come from the bedside of the Holy Father") that one listener was moved to observe:"You could almost hear the Pope breathe." After the Pope's death,† the mills ground out rumor (e.g., that the Pope's secret diaries had been stolen) and worked up enough "dope" stories discussing the "papabili" of the church's 53 cardinals to bring...
...where the frontiers are just starting to roll back. In the first 100 years British Columbians managed to plow only about 33% of the available farmland, utilize barely a fraction of their other known natural resources. Yet prosperity is a condition of life, to be greeted with the same calm pleasure as the monster 25-lb. brook trout (in the East a five-pounder is trophy size) hauled from the rivers...
...make our pictures speak. But yet, my dear brother . . . I tell you again that I shall always consider you to be something more than a simple dealer in Corots, that through my mediation you have had your part in the actual production of some canvases, which will retain their calm even in the catastrophe...
...press conference last week. "But the Republic of China holds its views, and, after all, it is its territory that is primarily involved." Tacking back to the rhumb-line course of policy in the teeth of the continuing foreign policy storm at home* and the uncertain cease-fire calm in the Formosa Strait, Dulles criticized the "exaggerated" importance the press had put on his comment fortnight before (TIME, Oct. 13) that the Chinese Nationalists were "foolish" to concentrate 100,000 fighting men on the offshore islands. As a military matter, the U.S. will advise some reduction of these forces...