Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written, the events of Spring, 1940, will not make pleasant reading. Five European nations, inoffensive by-standers who had steadfastly maintained that this was a conflict in which they had no part, in which they were taking no side, were invaded. They had earnestly endeavoured to maintain a calm neutrality. They had failed...
...shown the present Neutrality Act of the United States, along with the recent speeches of the President, could not by the wildest stretch of vision deduce that they were expressions of one and the same government. On the one hand is the Neutrality Law, careful, measured, and calm. The reader can see written into it the long toil, and debate, and painstaking devotion of its makers, men full of zeal for one thing--keeping a nation out of war. On the other hand are Mr. Roosevelt's addresses, stirring and emotional, speaking of a civilization, a way of life that...
...first time in her pious life, plump Princess Juliana turned up at a Sunday football game in Amsterdam last week-to show her nervous countrymen how to be calm in a crisis. To show that the crisis was passing, the Army ordered that monthly four-day leaves be resumed after two weeks of complete mobilization...
...detectives rapped his knuckles with a revolver butt. The other slammed the door in his face. Purple-faced Nazi Boenninghausen demanded that the detectives be removed. Replied the Chamber's President Baron de Vos van Steenwyk: "You will be the one removed, if you do not calm yourself...
...Berlin specializes in skits such as Schmidt & Smith, wherein Smith, a gouty Englishman, played by Lord Haw-Haw, who drops his baritone voice to basso range for the part, is forever getting bested by calm, confident German Schmidt...