Word: calming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private Gordon Gray had been in the Army only a week when he had a gripe. Bedbugs, he complained to the supply sergeant at Fort Bragg, were making his life miserable. The sergeant met the problem with soldierly calm, promptly issued Private Gray a special weapon: one Flit gun, loaded. That was Gordon Gray's first lesson in military supply. He went on learning, first as a wartime infantry captain, then as Assistant Secretary, and later as Under Secretary of the Army in charge of procurement of everything from Flit guns to tanks. Last week, President Truman decided that...
...President Syngman Rhee tried to calm the storm by replacing the Minister of Justice with pistol-toting Prosecutor Kwon, who had got his gun back from the police with an abject apology. But Rhee said that the Assembly committee could only question suspected collaborators and not arrest them. At week's end there was an uneasy truce...
Robert Salau of the Seventh Day Adventist Church arrived in New York City last week for his first look at a strange land; Pastor Salau is a missionary among his own people of the Solomon Islands. Above his grave, calm face his hair stood straight up in a shock of black fuzz; he was dressed in a blue tweed jacket and blue woolen skirt with red belt, black oxfords and black, knee-length stockings. He was not prepared for the reporters and photographers who found him aboard the liner Mauretania, on a trip that is taking him around the world...
Sedative. In Seattle, Richard Ace Brundage, onetime volunteer fireman, confessed to setting four fires because "when the siren blows it seems to calm my nerves...
...Better Position." For the first time in three hard years, the State Department had an air of calm, unharried confidence. The truth was that the West had learned how to get on with its work without getting on with the Russians. The lifting of the blockade had been proof of the West's success, the rebellion of the voters in Russia's Eastern Zone was a welcome and unexpected bonus. "I think perhaps we have a better opportunity . . . than we have had before," Acheson declared. "We most certainly are now in a better position to deal with...