Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From General Lucius Clay down, the Americans in Berlin are calm. A few American families fly their sets of silver and their Steinway pianos to Frankfurt in the U.S. zone, but there is not the shadow of a panic nor any flight of dependents, but an impressive community awareness of what it is all about. We have only 4,000 soldiers in Berlin, but their morale is topnotch, and many are spoiling for a fight. They are tired of feeling pushed around...
Despite the favoring nor'easter, Henry Taylor was worried. He called La Guardia Airport, got a discouraging weather report : the seas would get glassy calm near Bermuda. Taylor hitchhiked a ride on the New York Herald Tribune's plane that circled out over the Atlantic to cover the race. Through the mist and rain he spied three sails-but no sign of Baruna...
...Ecuadorian politicos matched Galo Plaza's calm. After eight years of revolution & counterrevolution, and five Presidents (only one of whom was elected), the country had finally had a rootin', tootin' reasonable facsimile of a U.S.-style campaign ; it had ended in a fairly honest election. The unofficial tally: Independent Galo Plaza, 116,496; Conservative Manuel Elicio Flor, 112,509; Liberal Alberto Enriquez, 56,942. Even so, Galo Plaza was not necessarily the President-elect...
...Americans who were celebrating the 100th anniversary of Swedish immigration to the Midwest. He pulled out that surefire issue-Communism-and used it as a sort of moral prop for his civil-liberties program, for slum clearance, old-age pensions, and higher minimum wages. The audience was friendly but calm...
...minute the water was calm. The next, surging waves crashed against the piers, ships rolled at anchor. Then the stooping, kind-faced man leaned forward and pressed a button-and in a few seconds the water was still again...