Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just as the Administration was basking in this new after-the-battle calm, an ominous cloud of another color scooted across the horizon. Heart of the Eisenhower foreign policy is the foreign aid bill that sets up a long-term economic Development Loan Fund for providing loans to underdeveloped countries. Last month the Senate voted resounding endorsement (57-25) for the plan. Last week the House Foreign Affairs Committee turned thumbs down on the Administration request, insisted on sticking with the year-to-year tradition, and recommended a $400 million slash below the $3.6 billion the Senate had authorized...
...comeback this week. Harry S. Truman, star, supporting cast, musical soloist and partial scriptwriter of TV's memorable tour of the White House in 1952, put on another good one-man show this week on CBS's Let's Take a Trip. He was the calm and canny host for a TV preview of the $1,750,000 Harry S. Truman Library in home-town Independence...
...with his furious concentration, the Redlegs' Manager George Robert ("Birdie") Tebbetts, 44, was busy outguessing the opposition, calling the shots for his own club and cocking his narrowed, china-blue eyes at the umpires. For a man with so much on his mind, Birdie seemed uncommonly cool and calm...
Birdie Tebbetts may have looked relaxed, but he was simmering inside with the problems, hunches, gambles and indecisions of a competitor who hates to be outguessed, hates even more to lose. He remained squatly in his corner of the bench-not because he was calm but because he was a catcher. As a catcher, he had learned to do his thinking in a crouch. It is a posture that seems to hone the intellect. For catchers, once they have mastered the mask, chest pads and other "tools of ignorance," seem to make the grade as big-league managers almost...
...Most French doctors let their patients take the waters on the theory that they will do no harm, and may do some good. "Cures always have a hygienic value," says Professor Pierre Delore of the University of Lyon's Faculty of Medicine. "They are an occasion for giving calm and also for ridding the system of its poisons. They are healthy vacations...