Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally got the attention of the head waiter and when Sherwood explained to him that a valuable, original manuscript had probably been left in a taxi, the waiter said, in a very calm voice: "I wouldn't worry, sir. Nobody ever loses anything in a London taxicab." He was right. The script was back at Sherwood's hotel, the following morning...
...shouted Hubert Humphrey, "should be fired-now-this afternoon!" Immediately a mooing chorus of farm-bloc Senators raised their protests to the glass roof of the chamber. Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Francis Case of South Dakota clamored to join Humphrey's attack. Later, even calm old Walter George thought that Secretary Benson had "lost his usefulness...
...became under Bonnard's brush. In it, the transition from the blue tablecloth set in the cool interior of what is probably Bonnard's summer house, past the door and window, framing a dark-haired woman, to the shimmering outdoor vibrations, becomes a melodic, orchestrated movement from calm interior repose to the joyous peacefulness of a summer...
...calm of exam period temporarily smothered the intramural system, Winthrop House quintets remained undefeated, holding precarious possession of first place in both 'A' and 'B' leagues...
...this increasingly troubled situation, U.S. diplomats have tried to calm everybody down, hoping not to antagonize either side. The result has pleased no one and solved nothing. Inside the State Department and in the U.N. are influential voices saying that something can and should be done if only the West will seize the opportunity: Middle East leaders, these men say, will not make concessions on their own, but would be willing to make concessions at outside insistence if they could show their people that they...