Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts of life in the new Met assemblage was a Roman copy of a 5th Century B.C. Greek bronze, The Wounded Amazon. The Met had picked it because it demonstrated some of the esthetic qualities the Greeks had prized most highly: the Amazon was dead calm, despite her wounds, and a fine-tuned example of physical fitness. Unlike the stiff, staring images of earlier cultures, she looked alive and in motion...
Then he made his men pull faster as soon as the Crimson shell hit some calm water in the last half mile. As Love put it, "He rowed a heady race...
...Enough Money. The 90-odd pilots of the Flight Test Division, most of them based at Wright Field, have the highest prestige of any group in the peacetime Air Force. Slim, unshakably calm Colonel Albert Boyd, 42, chief of the division, picks his men with minute care. Their records must show that they are not "accident prone." Formal engineering training is valuable, but character is essential. The prospective test pilot must be alert, intelligent, stable and not excitable. He must be enthusiastic about the work. There isn't enough money, explains Colonel Boyd undramatically, to pay for what...
...always calm three fathoms down...
...threat to the democratic character of our university community lies in the fact that "suspicious rumors and public and private pressure" have in many areas come to appear as genuine grounds for punitive academic actions, the committee maintained. In their place, must be substituted "calm objective deliberation" and "slow of proven fact," continued the committee. Not confidence but fear, it concluded, is the greatest weakness in our society...