Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reynaud paid glowing tribute-by the withdrawal of planes for the defense of Great Britain (see p. 27) was all too possible. Any way it was looked at, the task before Weygand was grim. All week he must have labored desperately, but the atmosphere at his headquarters was as calm, brisk, full of encouragement as it should be around a commander. Said he: "I am full of confidence if everyone does his duty with driving energy...
...Taft, "a man of demonstrated ability and extraordinary political courage, has ranged the guns of his oratory on the side of a calm, intelligent, logical analysis of the world situation." The only ability he has demonstrated is that of a Senatorial stooge, a Republican wheelhorse devoid of any legislative originality. His extraordinary political courage has enabled him to confess his inadequacy to improve the conditions which he attacks. Belching sedative tablets from his guns of oratory, Senator Taft in his last two speeches, the only ones in which he has "dealt" with foreign policy, has betrayed woeful incompetence to frame...
...There should be no nonsense about it." City College students paraded in Manhattan, with placards protesting war and the R. O. T. C.; 1,000 Dartmouth students wired the President to keep the U. S. out of war; Temple University's student chiefs telegraphed a plea to calm "war hysteria"; Harvard Professor Roger Merriman criticized a student anti-war petition as failing "to see the moral issue"; Stanford students wired Mr. Roosevelt protests at his Pan-American policies; in Manhattan Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon resigned from the Dutch Treat Club because Author Clarence Budington Kelland remarked: "The fifth...
...accompli, must be rejected. And in the meantime, those whose daily prayer it is that the war hysteria will not grow to more alarming proportions, will rejoice that a man of demonstrated ability and extraordinary political courage has ranged the guns of his oratory on the side of a calm, intelligent, logical analysis of the world situation...
...novice, or first-year singles class, the heats of which were run off Tuesday, comparative times are deceptive, because the headwind that slowed the first racers on the half-mile course, died out throughout the afternoon and the rowers in the fifth heat had a virtual calm on their course...