Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, at $125 a suit). He has huge, deeply calloused, plumber's hands, made to grasp a Stillson wrench or to bang a conference table. His eyes are heavy-lidded, wary: they cloud over like a lizard's when Meany is nettled, and he becomes ominously calm. When that calm descends, says his secretary, "it's time to watch...
Bevanite Harold Wilson wanted only to administer a simple reprimand for bad parliamentary behavior. Labor's "keep calm" moderates were for formally censuring Nye, but not for expelling him: to do so during an election year would be to court defeat. Clem Attlee himself leaned to the moderates' view. Attlee's usual response to Nye Bevan's bull-like forays into vital issues-e.g., Formosa, negotiations with Russia, gibing at the U.S.-is to adopt as much of the Bevanite position as he can, and thereby undercut the Bevanites' appeal...
...Long Ball. There is little danger of Mike's collapsing. He has the crowd-proof calm of a winner. Once he is on the tee, his green eyes settle into a squint, his rugged shoulders swivel through a couple of practice swings; then he steps up to belt the ball a country mile. Lately he has been trying so hard to substitute control for power that his drives sometimes roll out to a mere 300 yards. A perfectionist with his irons, Mike is one of those rare types, a long-ball hitter who can also handle approaches and putts...
...hospital systems, lobotomies are now being abandoned or used rarely. There are other changes. Use of electric shock is down, in some cases as much as 90%. Patients who formerly had to be restrained, either mechanically (with cuffs or camisoles) or chemically (with large doses of barbiturates), are now calm without being groggy. In many hospitals, attendance at church, at dances, requests for occupational therapy and work assignments have doubled. Whatever its long-range effects on mental illness, the pills-for-the-mind revolution has already brought a striking new atmosphere of hope into the dark reaches of the back...
...slashed with their skates, an unforgivable sin in the West. The Czech referees' whistles were remarkably silent. After the Vs had tied one game, 3-3, and won the next, 6-0, Penticton's player-coach, Grant Warwick, had to skate around the ice blowing kisses to calm the crowd...