Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Purpose of Nehru's speechmaking was to ask for calm and reasonable response to the implications of a report of his States Reorganization Commission, which has toiled for two years at redrawing India's map. The 29 states which now make up India are an administrative jumble whose boundaries bear little relation to the languages of their people or administrative needs of government. Some states have strong local governments, others are virtually run from New Delhi; some were shaped by the British, others by old princely fiefs and tribal conflicts...
...York Times, Sohn said that "White The Algerian issue is a highly political one, it raises at the same time a basic constitutional question of charter interpretation. Past experience shows that his kind of question cannot be decided simply by counting votes in the General Assembly; it requires a calm, impartial approach which can be found only in the halls of justice...
...face of the planetary emergency the Vatican maintained its calm. The whole question, said a spokesman, seemed as of this week "slightly premature...
...dead-calm day in Sydney last week, Student Pilot Anthony Thrower, practicing take-offs and landings at Bankstown airport, stalled the engine of his light Auster plane a few feet from the ground, but made the landing safely, brakes on-he thought. Deciding to start his engine unaided, he advanced the throttle, jumped out of the cockpit and swung the prop. To his surprise, as the engine started, the plane began to move. Thrower grabbed a wing strut, but was unable to hold the plane; it roared downfield, took off and began circling the airport at a height...
...formidably calm about a D-day as unnerving as any faced by that old rust-bucket, U.S.S. Caine - the publication this week of his latest novel, Marjorie Morningstar. Months ago, Fellow Author J. P. Marquand warned: "The critics will be waiting for you with meat cleavers the next time around...