Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey train had moved through the country with leisurely assurance. The crowds were good-but no more than good-and they reflected their candidate's calm confidence. From the back platform of his car, Dewey made the same speech again & again-an appeal for unity, a promise of honest and competent government, a denunciation of those who played group against group and a criticism of the nation's "wobbling" foreign policy. He pointed out that the 80th Congress had appropriated more money for reclamation than the preceding Democratic Congress, adding invariably: "Sometimes we don't talk...
...spite of this the University's crew of secretaries consistently do an astounding job of staying cool, calm, efficient, polite, and genial. Hats, off gentlemen...
...Dewey and Earl Warren pitched their speeches in organ tones. They were calm, forgiving and even humble. They both quietly stated one main issue: it was time for a new broom. There were other minor issues. But this was the big one. After 16 years of one party, it was time to clean house...
...evening of the murder, 13-year-old Bertil Bernadotte switched on the radio at Dragongärden. That is how he heard the news. He ran to his mother, who took the news with outward calm; she had feared for weeks that her husband would be killed. Quietly she went to call her elder son, who was away at school. Soon the whole family assembled. King Gustav heard of his nephew's death as he was returning from his summer vacation; the old King wept. In Paris, U.N. delegates heard the news as they were getting ready for this...
...years ago Zvi came to Ana asking her help for a group of Rumanian Jews. She received him amiably on a Saturday afternoon. Coffee and cake was brought in. Old Zvi exploded: "How dare you offer me hot coffee on a Sabbath! Have you gone mad?" Ana, trying to calm her father, led him to the kitchen and showed him the electric percolator. She explained that, since no one needed to strike a match, no religious law was being violated, but he called the percolator a wicked machine and stalked...