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Word: calmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SEARCHLIGHTS ARE GOING ON AND LIGHTING UP THE VEHICLE. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT. Meanwhile at the White House, Presidential Aide Andy Goodpaster relayed the countdown, received over a Pentagon line, to Press Secretary James Hagerty in Augusta. From Central Control at 10:33 the calm voice on the mike droned on: "T minus 15 and still counting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Voyage of the Explorer | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...Calm Focus. Shrewd and impenetrably affable, Dulles talked with calm realism. Let's get things in focus, was his theme. One and only one basic, unifying interest had brought members together: mutual defense against their Soviet Communist neighbor. Dulles argued that the U.S. could do more for the Baghdad nations by remaining outside the pact than by joining. The Baghdad Pact commits its members only to "cooperate for their security and defense." Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, Dulles pointed out, the U.S. is pledged to send its armed forces, on request, to the aid of any Middle East nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: MIDDLE EAST Observer's Pledge | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Palm Springs' Dr. Herman M. Salk (brother of Vaccinventor Jonas Salk) has pioneered with tranquilizers for dogs; they not only calm the patient, making him easier and safer to handle, but in many cases they are better than standard anesthetics. (Cows get tranquilizers to calm their jitters when coming into milk.) Dr. Salk borrows another technique from psychiatry: empathy. "A vet has to feel what the dog feels," says Salk. "When I get a patient with a tense belly, I find my belly getting tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Veterinary Revolution | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...outward calm during such incidents always puzzled Stanislaus, though he later realized one of its causes: their mother had become a symbol to the great symbol-maker of "the Irishwoman, the accomplice of the Irish Catholic Church, which [James] called the scullery-maid of Christendom." Stanislaus laces his book with anticlerical gibes; the brothers' joint rejection of the Catholic faith culminated in a scene at their dying mother's bedside in which Jim and Stanislaus refused to kneel and pray for her-an episode that Joyce later used in Ulysses as the source of Stephen Dedalus' "agenbite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloomsday's Child | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

Against the wintry backdrop of statistics, President Eisenhower sent to Congress this week a calm reminder of the U.S. economy's strength and a firm prediction of its renewed growth. The President's yearly Economic Report, drafted with the help of his Council of Economic Advisers, reiterated that 1957 was a year of record-setting prosperity. Total industrial output equaled the 1956 record. Gross national product ($434 billion) and total personal income '($343 billion) surpassed 1956 levels by 5%. At midyear the employment total stood at a new record high of 67.2 million, and the last quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Prospect: Growth | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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