Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital in small businesses -millinery shops, hamburger stands, ma chine shops. In labor-union meetings, most of the talk centered on how to get new benefits, not on how to keep up with a runaway cost of living. At the office coffee breaks, the talk was easy and calm, not about the coming war or the coming depression. Moderation was the rule. In Chicago, City Park Superintendent Walter Wright announced that police would not use tape measures this summer to check on indecent exposure at the city's bathing beaches, but would limit themselves to reasonable judgment of what...
...anti-Communism in Asia. Some observers thought that the descent continued with Eisenhower's expressed willingness to negotiate a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. The President believed that this move was important in reinforcing the U.S. world reputation as a peace-pursuing nation. Despite the present calm, the U.S. still faces a very dangerous Asian situation...
Hammarskjold is a quiet man, the exponent of "quiet diplomacy." Yet in this polished Swede, with his distaste for cocksure statements, lurks a calm, dogmatic conviction: that some day the U.N. will glow in the minds of men because there is no alternative...
...gentle wind blows from the south; then it dies away, and a hot and oppressive calm lies across the land. From the west comes a line of thunderheads. At first they are low on the horizon, but swiftly they rise and swell and dominate the sky. By this time, weather-wise Great Plains farmers, who know tornado signs, are sticking close to their cyclone cellars...
...accepted by U.S. industry, N.A.M. speakers revised their speeches. Keynoter Robert E. Wilson, chairman of Standard of Indiana, called it "unthinkable" that a worker should be paid nearly as much "for not working as he is for working." On the other hand, he added, as a note of calm, "neither should we assume that any new burden would be intolerable." At week's end the N.A.M. took a firm stand against G.A.W. Said its board of directors: "Such plans will create inequities among employees . . . deplete state unemployment compensation reserves, and jeopardize the financial strength of many companies, especially...