Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clarity of antique calm...
...solar system was originally a diffuse, whirling, gaseous mass. As this nebular mass became smaller and denser, it whirled faster, until centrifugal force threw off a ring of gas. The process was repeated, each gas ring coalescing into a planet and the sun finally settling down to its present calm estate...
...were tired and exhausted with the heat of the great debate that had killed Calhoun, and sent Clay and Webster to their death-beds. The Compromise had been passed, and the two great empires within an empire went to their corners to bind up their wounds. The delicious calm and relaxation that follows struggle had enveloped them. The conciliatory spirit of Clay, that sprang from the open meadows and wooded streams of the Blue Grass of Kentucky, had prevailed over both the hot blood of South Carolina and the brawling abolitionism of the North. He had gathered...
...hated the Slaves. It didn't take him long to draw the blood of Kansas. It spilled at Leavenworth, and it spilled at Lawrence, and all the while John Brown exulted in it, exulted in his rifle and in killing, killing the enemy. The calm of the nation was shattered, and once more the North and South took up the ancient battle-cries, revived the sputtering debates in Congress. The old days were over, everyone knew, but how, and why? The Compromise had seemed so perfect, and yet somehow those quiet, luxurious days of peace had ebbed away. Perhaps they...
Tanned under his crumpled white hat, the President fished calmly in the Pacific. Far from calm was the Senate. As irritation mounted, Colorado's Johnson, Nevada's McCarran, Indiana's Van Nuys, South Carolina's Smith, Iowa's Gillette, Alabama's John Bankhead, issued statements ranging from plaintive pleading to desperate threats. Saturday Congress had stopped even pretending to keep its mind on its work, cocked an ear to Springfield, Ill., kept an eye on the ticker for a flash from the Panama Canal Zone...