Word: calmest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations. But diplomatic red tape and international tensions make such a meeting impossible. Bent on learning more about the earth's strange ways, Klaatu escapes from the hospital, pilfers an earthling's business suit and, as a lodger in a Washington boarding house, becomes the sanest, calmest man on the planet...
Throughout all the uproar, Philosopher Hawkins had remained just about the calmest man on the campus. To his friends, who object less to his Red past than to his stubborn use of domestic vermouth in Martinis, he had only one comment on his vindication: "Now, perhaps, we can all get back to work...
...Communist leaders were brought to book, Defendant Sobell, 33, nervously scrubbed his fingers along his chin as the Government began its case. Tall and pale, Julius Rosenberg, 33, drummed on the counsel table; his wife, Mrs. Ethel Green-glass Rosenberg, indicted with them as a fellow conspirator, was the calmest. These three, the Government charged, were part of the spy transmission belt for which Physicist Klaus Fuchs (see SCIENCE) was a prime source and Chemist Harry Gold a key courier. The Russian contact for the ring was Anatoli Yakovlev, who was wartime Soviet vice consul in New York. "The evidence...
Meanwhile, the four Crimson crews at Red Top continued to take two workouts of over four miles each day; the first before 7 a.m. and the second at around 6:30 p.m., times when the Thames is calmest...
Even on the calmest day, a continual wind sweeps across the flat expanse of Soldiers Field. It dashes through the unprotected tennis courts, transforming drop shots, into smashes and smashes into drop shots. And the H.A.A. does not plant hedges or put canvas screens around the courts because intramural athletics cannot even pay its own way, let alone provide money for improving facilities...