Word: calming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with other allies to prevent full U.S. involvement in future situations like Viet Nam and, not least, to find some way to calm the volcanic Middle Eastern situation...
...Oske hardly qualifies as a remnant of the Nazi judiciary that survived the war. His legal education came after the war, and he has established a reputation as a competent, calm and fair judge. Overwhelmed by the reaction to his decision, he suffered a nervous breakdown a few days later. Meanwhile, as 7,000 left-wing students demonstrated against the verdict on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm, Chief Federal Prosecutor Ludwig Martin let it be known that he would handle the appeal against the acquittal...
Given that the world resembles the world, there is an aura of calm surrounding the Lost People--never beginning a particular road they never risk a wrong turn or an end. A mindless (being either above or below mind, if not on a totally different scale) journey like sleeping with your eyes open in the clear and cold...
...Jones' real talent is for making the improbable seem necessary and the grotesque plausibly humdrum. Perhaps because Jones has caught lobsters, sold boats, worked on newspapers and taught school, his showy invasion of the private terrors that lurk just below the surface of apparently calm minds seems somehow fresh-and far removed from the structural, Stygian, self-conscious atrocities of the black comedians with whom he will inevitably be compared...
Died. Enid Blyton, seventyish, prolific British author of calm, cozy children's books; of a coronary thrombosis; in a London hospital. Despite criticism that her work was sentimental, few bedtimes were complete without a story about Toyland, inhabited by Little Noddy the Pixie and Mr. Plod the Policeman. She authored some 400 titles (translated into 33 languages), and her sales in Britain alone topped the 85 million mark...