Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, ordinarily a calm, slow-going Arkansan, got the word during hearings on reciprocal trade, rushed from the room, set up a telephone command post in a nearby office, alerted Speaker Sam Rayburn, huddled with other Democratic leaders, issued urgent orders for committee staffers to whip up a Democratic tax-cut bill the moment the White House moved. No matter what chips the Republican Administration threw onto the table against recession, the Democratic...
...Jean Bazaine, an outstanding abstractionist, who often listens to classical music as he works, produces calm harmonies of rhythmic, flowing color patterns...
Like a mask that hides the agony of the face beneath it, an uneasy calm has settled over the surface of Hungary: somehow, the people and their hated government are managing to get along. Last week TIME Correspondent Edgar Clark went to Budapest for a firsthand look at what life is like 16 months after the revolution. His report...
...vain attempt to run them into a Red-led splinter group. But in 1932, Dubinsky moved up to the presidency of the parent garment union, the International Ladies' Garment Workers, forced out the Communists, rallied the divided unionists, won concessions from management and steered labor into calm waters...
...sting. Sample: "Crusty old politicians are now told how to put things across on TV. And the more charming they are, the less you believe ... I still remember Macmillan on TV last year watching the camera lens as if it were a cobra and appealing to the nation for calm, his face frozen with terror...