Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would set up a vassal Government in Manila, put at its head a puppet President. Who? Not Manuel Quezon: even though Quezon in the past has shown no antipathy toward the Japs, Quezon is now committed to a last-ditch defense. And not Sergio Osmeña: the lean, calm, white-haired Vice President of the Philippines is half Chinese...
...young-54. His superiors think him bright: he first came to public view in 1938 when he jumped 100 seniority places to become Director of Military Operations and Intelligence. He looks and sounds like a man with the juice of command in him: short, stocky, broad-shouldered, spruce, calm-voiced, neat, a pipe-smoker. He is a man of few words-"a most precise fellow," says a colleague-but the words are peppery and to the point; he once reported a three-hour Imperial war conference in eight lines...
...Harvard is settling down to the serious business of organizing its defense and wartime services on a duration basis. The PBH-Student Council Defense Service Committee, centered at Dean Chauncey's clearing-house in University Hall, will attempt to make unaroused Harvardmen realize that "keeping calm" does not mean burying one's nose in a book or a stein of beer and forgetting that a war exists. Actually, of course, there are a few who still cling to kidding themselves, but so far the trouble has been that opportunities for volunteers were vague or non-existent; also many undergraduates...
Churchill the Man. Day after his arrival, Winston Churchill sat beside Franklin Roosevelt behind the broad desk of the oval office in the Executive Offices, waiting with the poker-faced calm of a veteran political speaker while 200-odd U.S. and foreign newsmen gathered for a press conference unique in White House history...
Writer. In Columbus, Ohio, a visitor to a telegraph office wrote a message, threw it away, wrote another, threw it away, wrote a third, handed it to a clerk. The third: "All your cash and be quiet." The first and second, found after the stickup: "Be calm. This is a stickup"; "Holdup, All your cash...