Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rage when L'Express' Editor Servan-Schreiber hinted that he had reduced the tax on race horses for the sake of his fellow members of the Racing Club, challenged the editor to a duel, was practicing myopicaliy with a revolver before Mendès managed to calm...
...this was no drugged, disordered sleep such as follows heavy dosing with barbiturates, scopolamine or insulin. A gentle shake of the shoulder would bring the patient wide awake at once, able to give sense-making answers. After a few days the somnolence wore off, but the patients remained calm. They willingly took pills instead of requiring injections, fed themselves, ate heartily and slept well. Not all patients responded equally well. But among 77 manics, Dr. Lehmann saw no total failures; 27 were somewhat improved, nine improved enough to go home despite some lingering illness, and 37 went home "recovered...
...calm, confident white paper, Britain's Ministry of Fuel and Power told last week how it plans to make Britain an atom-powered nation. The changeover will be gradual, but the program is much more ambitious than any officially advanced...
...ahead on points after skimming through the compulsory figures, honey-haired Tenley Albright, 19, stood poised and calm on Vienna's open-air rink as the band swung into a lilting melody. Then, with all the confidence of a champion, long-legged Tenley glided out to begin her free skating-the difficult double loops and axels and double salchows of her own devising...
...half-joking credo: "If you find the right man for the right job, you don't have to work nearly so hard yourself."After the conference, followed by a business lunch, Pride took a 30-minute nap, then returned to his work in the same calm, unhurried way. He ended the day at a ship's movie (Susan Slept Here...