Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West felt better. At Paris the West had learned that paralysis in fear of Soviet displeasure was not a policy. At Paris the West's statesmen had moved boldly for their own united defense, and then looked up to await Russia's reaction with the calm of men who had done what they...
...trial has been disappointing. Reporters tried to pep it up by calling Dr. Sam "the Romeo of the rubbing table," got their doctors mixed by describing his extramarital girl friend, Susan Hayes, as the "orthopedic wench." "For an osteopath," commented the New York Post on Dr. Sam's calm courtroom demeanor, "he hardly moved a muscle." Headlines promised BOMBSHELL DUE AT TRIAL TODAY and NEW SHEPPARD SEX ANGLE HINTED. But no bombs burst, no angles materialized...
...most "have-not" nations seem to be chiefly interested in atomic power. The U.S.'s problem is to calm down the visionary while disproving the cynical. The excitable happily envision a kind of atomic Marshall Plan setting up atomic power reactors on every hilltop, making deserts bloom like a rose. The cynical doubt that anything will come of the plan but an exchange of talk and papers...
...nature of things, might be called, out of the house any minute. Little left now but a minute to take a drink at the door . . . Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him ... and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah...
Mental-health experts across the U.S were choosing up sides in a controversy over a new drug. From California's Modesto State Hospital came enthusiastic reports of success in using reserpine (TIME, June 21) to calm down the most disturbed patients in the back wards, and to lift the most depressed out of their lethargy, thus making both types more responsive to psychiatric treatment. Three California doctors used such words as "dramatic" and "incredible" to describe the improvement wrought by reserpine* in 80% of the 74 patients on whom they tried it. They forecast in the A.M.A. Journal...