Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with ignorance, mutual fears and hates, can be miraculously cured by a single meeting. I mean a stern determination that we shall not be reckless and witless, relaxing our posture merely because a persistent foe may assume a smiling face and a soft voice. By wisdom, I mean a calm awareness that strength at home, strength in allies, strength in moral position, arm us in impregnable fashion to meet every wile and stratagem that may be used against us. But I mean also a persevering resolution to explore every decent avenue towards a lasting and just peace, no matter...
Despite this, all seemed calm last week at Cutter's 20-acre Berkeley laboratory and at its $1,000,000 Chattanooga hospital solutions plant. The three executive Cutter brothers-Dr. Bob, 57, the president; Executive Vice President Ted, 53 (sales, production); Vice President Fred, 51 (research, controls)-were doing business as usual. Sales were running slightly ahead of last year's $14,850,000. The company had not discharged any of its 1,097 employees, and had, in fact, even added a new biologicals controls building to the 37 others at the Berkeley plant. Said Fred Cutter...
...Street), where he volunteered his name, rank and mission. He was condemned to death, and held overnight in the greenhouse of the mansion. The next morning, Sept. 22, 1776, at 11 a.m., he was hanged at a point which is now 66th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan. His calm dignity and poise made a deep impression on Captain John Montresor, an aide-de-camp to General Howe. It was Montresor who later reported Hale's last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."* After the patriot's body...
Citation: "Despite your becoming modesty, you have given courageous leadership through music in years of crisis and of calm...
...hovered over his face, and a relaxed voice came over the radio: "Is that better, son?" Yeager, flying chase in an F-86 jet, had screened the sun. It was Bridgeman's introduction to Yeager. From then on, he hovers over many of Bridgeman's flights, a calm, wisecracking guardian angel with a West Virginia drawl...