Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uninspiring. It limited traffic, decreed a curfew from midnight to 5 a.m., pointed cryptically to the double danger in the rear of the troops defending Moscow and in the rear of Moscow itself, concluded quietly: "The State Committee for Defense appeals to all toilers in the Capital to keep calm and orderly and to render the Red Army defending Moscow all possible help...
...gentleman jockey, Franz was early admitted into Germany's select Military Riding School. Six years after leaving school he was a captain on the General Staff. Photographs of Papen taken at that time show the young Erbsälzer looking straight into the camera with a characteristic "calm and open stare." "So," says Author Koeves, "Narcissus might have looked into the clear surface of a limpid stream...
After the show, the two elders of the household, dreaming of the glories of a vanished England, move up to bed, to death. The younger couple, a sorrowful, sadly mismated Adam and Eve, are left alone to their marriage and to silence, sailing like disconsolate swans on the exhausted calm of a summer evening, and on the edge of one of the steepest chasms in history...
Despite his calm reception of the news, Colonel Phinizy was later heard to mutter into a glass of "Mah Confederate ancestry calls but within me sub Ab prefer mah Sheridans twenty miles away...
...small Spanish town lay quietly couched in the hills of the Basque country. The first late April fruits were beginning to fill the thick mountain trees. At the bottom of the hill, just below the town, the reedy flat of el Juncal was calm after its first spring floods, and the streams that had choked it with torrents after the early snow thaws were now seeping in more placidly...