Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House Speaker Sam Rayburn fielded this supposed hot potato with the calm of an old pro outfielder gathering in a lazy fly. Said Mr. Sam, with Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills at his elbow: "We are in accord with the President's suggestion that there be no decrease in existing taxes this year." Mills promptly got Ike's proposal reported out of his committee intact...
...Ought to Know." Miami's Lowe appealed for help to the national CAP commander in Washington, then to the FBI and the Air Force as well. Eventually, on a flight to Miami, Pierce did look up Lowe to try to calm him down. According to Lowe, Airman Pierce said that he was "official scrounger" for the New York CAP; that by ringing doorbells he had collected enough money to buy the New York pilots the latest radio equipment, buses and other luxuries. And where did the rest of the money come from? As Lowe recalls, Pierce replied...
Delgado may surprise observers by still being around on election day. and still a candidate, but no one expects him to win the presidency. Yet a few fissures are showing this spring in the glacial calm that has usually characterized Portugal in the past quarter-century. Said a middle-aged Lisbon businessman: "I've always supported Salazar because he brought us peace and quiet, and I like peace. But these elections are completely different. I think people are getting tired, not of Salazar, but of the other fellows in his government...
...Junior event, rowed in the late afternoon, benefitted from unexpectedly calm water and a mild tail wind after a day of wind and choppy surface. Bradford will reportedly receive a medal for his victory. Official time was not reported, but observers indicated that it was probably some three seconds off the record mark...
...posted notice invited "any seriously dispossessed individuals...to count to ten, keep calm, and go to see Miss Brown...