Word: calming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nashua of his hemisphere. The horse experiences two traumatic experiences with fire, the first in a nearby forest and the second in his Tokyo stable. These incidents of couse affect his racing proficiency, and in the end the boy uses his harmonica in an attempt to calm the distraught animal in preparation for the "big race...
...calm, low voice, Colonel Edward L. Hutchinson read from the paper before him: "It is my duty as president of this court to inform you that the court sentences you to be discharged from the service with a bad-conduct discharge, to forfeit $30 a month for nine months, to be confined at hard labor for nine months and to be reduced in grade to private...
...calm returned to the auditorium where the nation's attention had focused for three weeks, a blunt but inescapable truth emerged from the proceedings: the Marine Corps, as Puller said, exists only to teach men how to fight, win and survive in the crudest test of all-war-and because war is cruel, preparation for it sometimes has cruel results...
Lawyer's Stand. Calm, bulky and phlegmatic, Lawyer Dulles took the position that Egypt as a sovereign nation had a legal right to nationalize the Canal Company-an Egyptian entity which he likened to a public utility with a government charter-so long as Egypt paid due compensation. But he also held that Nasser, in seizing the canal itself, had violated solemn treaties.* In the end, the Big Three duly called a conference of 24 nations "deeply concerned with use of the canal"* to meet in London Aug. 16. At Dulles' insistence, those invited included not only Egypt...
...beach at Starmouth, an English seaside resort. The body shows four stab wounds and unmistakable signs of torture. Chief Inspector Gently, Central Office, C.I.D., a Scotland Yard detective who unfortunately pops peppermints into his mouth during tense moments, gives the tale a tone of well-mannered British calm in spite of the neon-lighted boardwalk setting and a lurid cast of characters, which includes a prostitute, a couple of juvenile delinquents, a village idiot and a gang of international spies...