Word: calming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calm, determined Sheriff McCall put in a hurry call to Governor Fuller Warren that brought 78 National Guardsmen to the scene. Off and on for three days, small mobs, sprinkled now with strangers from other counties, cruised menacingly in cars, or shuffled through the small-town streets, but did no damage. Then, all of a sudden, they were roused again. A hundred shouting whites with rifles and pistols roared into tiny Mascotte in trucks, forced Guardsmen and police to withdraw and took over the community for the night...
Last week, as the going got rough in Washington, De Lattre was calm. Said his wife: "He has got very patient since he has gone to Fontainebleau-as patient as when he was in prison." Patiently, the man on a tightrope was waiting for America to commit an act of faith...
...biggest ever made), to sell for $725. Magnavox Co. bragged that its three new 16-in. sets had the largest picture area (148 sq. in. v. the usual 126) of any 16-in. set now on the market (prices: $399-5° to $595). Westinghouse Electric Corp., to calm dealers' fears of inventory losses, adopted the policy of guaranteeing its television dealers against loss on any price cuts that might be made within 60 days after dealers bought their sets...
...press spread the news of its family tragedy in black headlines, Ambassador Henderson had the task of identifying the bodies of his night-before guests. Most of their faces were readily recognizable, their expressions calm, as if death had come with merciful suddenness...
...last two summers Drs. Albert W. Bellamy and Kermit Larson, of the University of California at Los Angeles, have been working with a party of twelve helpers in the region around Trinity. To calm local worries, they pretended that they were studying local plants and animals. Actually, they were estimating the biological effects of the atomic explosion. They collected over 600 different kinds of plants. They trapped a variety of animals and examined them for radioactivity and possible organic changes. They measured the radioactivity of the soil over a wide region...