Word: calming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring of 1958, the minister's son, Presidential Assistant Gabriel Hauge, showed the same old-fashioned fortitude in the face of icy winds of another kind. With the U.S. economy slipping downward, panicky cries for drastic federal intervention rang out in Washington and across the U.S. But calm, articulate Gabriel Hauge, sometime economics teacher at Princeton and Harvard, economics assistant to the President of the U.S. since the start of Ike's first term, counseled his boss to resist the pressures for inflation-breeding, damn-the-deficits programs. The downturn would halt during the year's second...
Moss is quiet and self-contained. He drives with expressionless calm, seated well back from the wheel. Moss seldom smokes, does not drink, keeps himself fit with long hours in a gym. A superb tactician, Moss often tags along in a preceding driver's slipstream, taking advantage of the reduced wind resistance. To Moss, driving is a "kind of poetry in motion-a feeling of rhythm, of perfect balance...
...Heavy fog and a flat calm fouled racing schedules most of the week as the first series of America's Cup trials for twelve-meter yachts ended off Newport, R.I. What racing there was clearly established the early-form supremacy of Columbia, skippered by Briggs Cunningham. John Matthews' ancient Vim performed well with good crew work, handily beating Weatherly and Chandler Hovey's Easterner, both of which were plagued by rigging breakdowns and boners attributable to inexperienced crews...
...bloodiest week yet of vengeful bombings, shootings and riots. The death toll: twelve Greek Cypriots, ten Turkish Cypriots and two British soldiers. Harassed British Governor Sir Hugh Foot persuaded the leaders of both the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities to join him in an unprecedented appeal for calm...
...cruising, Vim had been refurbished and reconditioned for a try at the Defender trials. Young (24) Donald Matthews brashly matched tactics with Briggs Cunningham, beat him to the starting line, and brought Vim home a whole minute ahead of Columbia. The second race petered out in a slatting calm. But before the committee called the whole thing off, Weatherly had shown itself a ghoster to be reckoned with, leading Vim by an estimated five minutes...