Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as the hurricane's calm blue eye takes shape, the Weather Bureau plans to drop a balloon inside it. Equipped with automatic instruments to keep it at a constant level, it will float serenely in the heart of the storm, reporting its position by radio and tracking the hurricane...
Later, at a meeting in the Oakland municipal auditorium, Stevenson found it necessary to calm the frenzied crowd of 3,600 after it interrupted his talk repeatedly with applause, cheers and stomping. Raising a hand, he said: "You must not get so excited. This is just a primary. The main bout will be next November...
...position as the No. 1 haunted house of the land went virtually unchallenged. Tenants came and went, but scarcely a year passed without some new and startling account of Borley's restless specters. Even the destruction of the old place by fire in 1939 failed to calm the ghosts who were seen by some disporting themselves in the flames. If there were any skeptics left, Price's own volumes, The Most Haunted House in England and The End of Borley Rectory, soon dispelled them. Even Sir Ernest Jelf, Senior Master of His Majesty's Supreme Court, examined...
...calling for an all-or-nothing application of the Court's ruling, we in the North should take a closer look at the case of Miss Lucy. For there are significant details which point to a conclusion which is far different--that gradual integration, given adequate protection, a calm climate of opinion, and the strong support of the University student groups and administration, can succeed...
Strong police protection, however, is ineffective without a calm atmosphere, and in this respect the NAACP has not been exactly lily-white. For days before Miss Lucy's enrollment, sensational statements played her up as an heroic trail-blazer for The Cause of Integration. Undoubtedly, Miss Lucy is blazing a trail across the Cotton Belt; but unless the NAACP sought also to make her a martyr, it is hard to understand why that organization's publicity should lead so directly to the very tension that should be avoided. An occasional "no comment" might, in the long run, be more effective...