Word: calming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-four hours after the Squalus went down the Navy had every available expert and rescue device on the scene. Calm weather was a godsend. At 10:15 a.m. Diver Martin Sibitzky went over the side of the Falcon and was lowered to. the deck of the Squalus. Under the terrible pressure in icy water, work was very slow. It took him 20 minutes to slide a shackle over a ring on the submarine's deck, clip a bolt through, tighten a nut. A cable was attached to the shackle. Before Sibitzky was back aboard the Falcon, nearly...
Billy the Kid was compelling testimony to that aim. Last week Composer Copland had another. In his first cinema music, for the documentary film The City (see p. 66), he wrote a score which well expressed the calm of a New England village, the bustle of a big city, the well-being of a model town. At the New York World's Fair, he had another: Copland tunes t accompanied giant puppets in the Hall of Pharmacy. And, although they never got to Broadway, the Mercury Theatre's Five Kings and the Group Theatre's Quiet City...
...fishermen searched the water for men from the Rose who had not had time to launch their dories. They found them all. Then, without food, water or compasses, they struck out, rowing steadily through the grey dawn toward the land somewhere about 100 miles westward. The sea was calm. For a while the dories kept in sight of one another, but soon they spread apart, going their own ways as they do when fishing. There was no disorder; every man knew they must make land or sight a ship before thirst broke their morale...
...Manhattan, Housewife Anna Abdou invaded a classroom in Public School 78, an ax in one hand, two iron stove legs in the other, screamed: "I hate kids. I'm going to kill you all." While the teacher tried to calm her, then tried to ignore her, Mrs. Abdou smashed doors, desks, radiators. Arrested, she explained that the school children persistently threw stones through her windows...
...picture of Franklin Roosevelt sitting at a table aboard ship in the Azores or some equally remote anchorage, settling the world's hash personally with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, was drawn in calm, confident words last week on the front page of the New York Times by its Washington correspondent, Arthur Krock. Some time last summer, said Mr. Krock, Mr. Roosevelt asked the Dictators to slip away and meet him at sea, but they declined...