Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most San Franciscans were peacefully finishing their dinner, starting for the movies, or settling down to the radio when these hair-raising messages were flashed into the city's air-raid report headquarters. Most San Franciscans never heard the messages. They went on about their evening with complete calm. The reports that poured into city-hall headquarters were merely practice. Police Chief Dulles was trying out the city's system for handling air-raid alarms-as improved since the first confused days after Pearl Harbor...
...also by the heroism of his fellow seamen. Proudly he described the spirit and speed with which the men of the Navy went into action-"faster than in target practice"-and in spite of orders to leave burning decks stayed at their anti-aircraft guns. He recalled the magnificent calm of a small doctor who carried a 275-lb. medical chest down two deck ladders during the attack and set up his operating room by himself. Even mess boys were heroes under fire. A British officer, said Captain Lovette, told him that neither at Dunkirk nor Crete had brave...
Goldfish eating is outdated. So are kissing contests. But the American college student can still do things that no calm, well-balanced person would...
...nearly three hours the delegates made speeches. Most violent was Chile's Rossetti. He literally screamed at calm, impassive Padilla, who had described the furor over "no podrán continuar" and "podrán no continuar" as a "drama of grammar." Chile had called the Conference in the first place, and now Chile's representative was one of the two most active in preventing unity. Argentina alone might not have gone through with intransigence; bolstered by Chile, her position was far stronger...
...Churchill for its author's sense of history as a pageant of personalities, his eye for vivid, incongruous detail, his ability to compress masses of fact into a smooth ribbon of narrative. They can also read it to trace the development of Winston Churchill from the specious Victorian calm into which he was born, until, an old man, he put the will of a battered empire into four words: "We shall never surrender...