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Word: calmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, the British had rushed additional troops to Cyprus, boosting the security force to 37,000 men for an area smaller than Los Angeles County. They postponed the scheduled public announcement of the plan for 48 hours to give the NATO Council a chance to calm the growing bitterness between NATO Partners Greece and Turkey. In a concentrated diplomatic effort, all the other 13 NATO powers-led by the U.S.-pressed the Greeks and Turks to at least consider the plan and withhold violence that could endanger the alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Romans 5:3--4 | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...husband keeps a girl on the side. Ma knows that something is going on, what with him out every night and coming home high all the time. The kids know, too, but they never let on to Pa, and Ma never really lets on to herself. "If you keep calm," she likes to say, "everything will turn out for the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 23, 1958 | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

This book aspires to "an epic calm . . . the calm of the graveyard." The graveyard is the Warsaw ghetto. The epic is the story of the last hopeless resistance of 500,000 Jews to their Nazi exterminators. Nearly two decades after the event, the reader feels not only horror but a sense of wonder at having lived through a time that gave birth to such crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Graveyard Epic | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Third Strike. Then Walter waddled to the mound. He went into his pitch on more TV programs than Betty Furness. He was no fireballer; he did not try to blow down the opposition. Instead, he tantalized the opposition with soft change-ups and calm, canny rationalizations. But mostly, he showed the voters that he was not a monster. Always he spoke softly and sounded reasonable. Two nights before the election. O'Malley's well-heeled backers organized a telethon in which Hollywood's most articulate stars turned out as cheerleaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Relief Pitcher | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Citation: "In a tense and turbulent hour, his is a calm voice, one we do well to heed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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