Word: calming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tape, too little real help-and always too late . . . Many of you here [at Oklahoma City] today are farmers. You have had particular reason to feel the neglect and the indifference of a big-business administration. For three years the Republican leaders watched farm prices fall with philosophical calm. This is the nice, polite way of saying they did nothing-until election year came around...
...shape of a passenger liner, showing her starboard green running light, and moving fatally and majestically across Stockholm's path. "Hard starboard! Full astern!" The desperate orders rang out again in the sedate courtroom. "I saw there would come a collision," testified Carstens-Johannsen, still even-voiced, still calm. "It was a collision situation. I had to stop my ship." At 11:09 p.m. the ships collided, as he saw it, thus...
...just pushed a highly unpopular conscription bill through the Bundestag in response to U.S. pressure for West German rearmament, it was particularly galling that his old friend John Foster Dulles had not given him advance warning of the Radford plan (TIME, Sept. 3). U.S. assurances failed to calm him. The more he pondered, the more Adenauer became convinced that the U.S. was on the verge of withdrawing to "Fortress America." Under such circumstances, he decided, West Germany had no choice but to abandon unquestioning loyalty to U.S. policy and start looking after its own interests...
...Calm and brainy, Bell lost no time striking out into the fields he liked best-research and development. His first fighter plane in 1937 was a flying machine-gun nest ; it had twin engines, a 300-m.p.h. top speed, bristled with two 37-mm. cannon, four .50-cal. machine guns. No sooner was it aloft than Bell was busy with a radical single-engined fighter, the P-39. It was the first single-engined U.S. fighter with tricycle landing gear, had a 37-mm. cannon firing through the hollow prop hub. Expanding from 100 workers to 55,000 at five...
...Eden was calm and forceful. Unknown to the Laborites, he had got a firm U.S. commitment to participate in the canal users' association, had finished penciling the proposal into his speech only minutes before. Quietly, he reviewed the history of the unsuccessful Menzies' mission to Cairo, then sprang the users' plan on a surprised Opposition...