Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calm & Polite." Looking haggard and erect, Chancellor Adenauer faced not only his Bundestag but a television audience. "Into our hands," said der Alte, "is placed the decision by which to end the epoch of European confusion and wars . . . Let us respond in a way we can justify in the eyes of Germany and the world...
...latest Soviet note proposing Big Four talks, and read a portion from it. The two were strangely similar. Ollenhauer, an antiCommunist, sputtered with rage as Adenauer made his point: "Herr Ollenhauer. these are your words and this is the Soviet note. I hope that our debate will be calm and polite and that it will not be necessary for me to read to the Bundestag what I have read...
...soothing to the nerves of the present generation than that bomb. At last, we feel, there is something truly final, something we can't be expected to do anything about. And since no one will ask our permission before using it, we can regard it with the polite calm with which we contemplate death in general: one doesn't expect to avoid it indefinitely and can't decently complain when it catches up with...
...Hodges greeted her husband calmly. "We had a little excitement around here," she said. "A meteor fell through the roof." But her calm was soon shaken. Hewlett Hodges was furious. He had a bruised wife, a hole in his roof and he had not even seen the black stone that was causing all the fuss. He denounced the Air Force for carrying off his meteorite, whose potential value was brought to his attention by Lawyer Huel Love of Talladega. What with Hewlett's carryings-on and the crowds of people tramping in and out to look at her living...
...last week alarming rumors of troop movements beyond the borders filled San Jose newspapers. Costa Rica braced itself for invasion by dissident filibusterers (TIME, Nov. 29). But through it all, President Jose ("Pepe") Figures kept cool, calm and laconic. Said his Saturday official communique: "No invasion is expected this weekend...