Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington thoroughly, has a top-flight newsman's ability to make coherent sense of what is going on. In voice and manner he is also well fitted to carry out CBS's policy on news broadcasts : no overexcitement, no overstatement. But for all its narrator's calm, the Report has dramatized many a big news story at the moment it broke...
...Calm hung over the quiet west London suburbs of Acton, Chiswick and Ealing. Housewives popped in & out of neighborhood stores with hardly a glance at the sky. They felt perfectly safe; the Germans hadn't been over London for months. It was a few minutes after nine on Armistice Day morning...
...unmistakable signs the U.S. last week clearly showed its stand in Asia. One sign was the President's earmarking of a billion dollars in Lend-Lease funds for hard-pressed Russia. The other was a calm refusal to be stirred by threats of war with Japan...
When it is calm and there is no wind, sailing skippers whistle. But they say that no matter how discouraged or angry they get, the wind seldom comes until the tide changes...
...joined by most of the university's handymen. A small crew stayed at work in the power plants, keeping Yale lights and heat going, and campus police, who are supernumeraries of the New Haven Police Department, also stood their posts. Said President Charles Seymour, urging students to keep calm: "I don't believe students will object to making their beds. I used to do it when I was a student in the Latin Quarter of Paris. ..." That hardship lasted only one day. Then the State Mediation Board induced the strikers to go back to work pending negotiations...