Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ferrying a favored few thousands to the uncertain havens of Hanoi and Haiphong. Most of Namdinh's 80,000 people are staying on, awaiting the unknown, manning their shops, thronging a market place bright with aluminum pans, preserving the ritual of their noontide siesta. In the siesta, the calm of Namdinh seems to be the calm of a coma...
...French have moved in 1,000 troops, including a detachment of Moroccan goumiers (who dote on killing Tunisians), some black Senegalese, and colonial infantry with tanks. There is also a new civilian controller, a hulking 200-pounder with clear blue eyes, a granite chin and a flair for calm heroics-Jean Paul Desparnets. 41. Raised in North Africa, where his father taught Arabic, Desparnets goes around unarmed in an open jeep. He is a career civil servant of France, and has served with U.N. commissions in the U.S. and Peru. Almost daily he receives notes from the fellagha. The latest...
...from the deck of the barge and set upright in the sea. Even gentle waves can make it swing like a pendulum, tipping the barge, pulling the crane out of line, snapping thick steel cables. Sometimes an erecting barge has to wait for costly weeks before the sea is calm enough to risk a dash to the drilling site...
...long as I live. You cannot imagine the feeling I experienced when I first learned of the . . . decision . . . To me . . . it means that I am one step closer to losing what I consider my "second-class" citizenship. Let us hope that those affected will accept what is right with calm and courage...
...object turned out to be a sculptured slab, 6 ft. 5½ in. by 2 ft. 3 in., showing the dead Christ laid out on a rough, shrouded bier awaiting entombment. In the tragic dignity of the recumbent figure and in the calm anguish of the face, the sculptor had achieved a work of striking realism; the body lies alone with none to mourn it, and the effect is one of infinite loneliness. Art experts called the statue a first-rate example of Renaissance sculpture, and archaeologists pronounced it "one of the major archaeological finds made in London during this...