Word: calming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sloan, 23. The defending champion, Sloan can curve and whistle a handball like a major-league pitcher. Before entering the Army, he worked for Kendler in Chicago. In the U.S.H.A. finals against Bob Brady, 36, a fireballing San Francisco cop, Private Sloan was at the peak of his methodical, calm game ("I'm a controlled kill player"), won going away (21-20, 21-9) to become indisputably the nation's handiest handballer...
...then the greatest amphibious undertaking in history, and Morison was on hand to record it, in all its complexities. The captain praised him after the battle, saying, "By his alert, active, analytical work in recording the events of the action; by his keen fighting spirit . . . ;and by his calm manner he contributed to the general and overall performance of the vessel...
...fact that the Chinese embassy circulated an editorial repeating the old Kalimpong charges even after he denied them; after all, he said, the West sometimes said some nasty things about India, too. When M.P.s pleaded with him to condemn Peking's repression, he contented himself with calling for calm and patience...
...tried to open his eyes against the blinding force was painfully evident. And if old airmen winced when the flight control officer yammered and yelled into the tower microphone, broke in on the G.C.A. operator in hammy confusion, the G.C.A. operator himself was superbly true to life. Calm, careful, his every tone reassuring and reliable, he was just the man to bring a pilot home.* The true Lieut. Obenauf was surely willing to overlook the utterly silly last lines that the show put in his mouth: "Hey, I gotta pick up all that baby stuff from the Maxwells...
...Battle of the Marne was lost by panic," said Grivas. "What helped us was to keep calm." Once, hearing a British patrol, he dived behind a bush. Not two yards away a British tommy shouted, "Here! Here!" "Although I was getting ready to die with honor," said Grivas, "the tommy was only calling to his friends to move on." Another time, Grivas was bathing in a stream when British troops appeared near by. He hid naked behind tall reeds until the British moved on. "They came that close to us many times...