Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turner and Leon Henderson. The language of mugging, strutting and rolling the eyes was universal, as Maurice Chevalier discovered before him. After four encores. Fiance's No. i crooner bubbled in French: "In France they understand what I sing. Here they understand me." He took three showers "to calm down...
...This week such ostrich notions were rudely jolted. One World or None (McGraw-Hill; $1)' "a report on the full meaning of the atomic bomb" by 17 scientists (including five Nobel prizewinners), generals and pundits, gave a preview of World War III. One World or None is a calm, hair-raising warning of swiftly approaching disaster. Americans who would like to die a natural death can read it with profit...
Just how wrong, Murrow was only too glad to admit. In his calm, precise voice he recalled Munich, and Chamberlain's return, and ". . . Mr. Winston Churchill sitting there below the gangway, like the conscience of Britain...
...C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, led by Communist-line Mike Quill, had threatened to strike (TIME, March 4). When Mayor William O'Dwyer and public opinion stood firm, Mike Quill finally backed down. But the city's victory was only partial-it had just gained a calm opportunity to ponder the subway's physical and financial...
...villas and casino of Mar del Plata. Yet Argentina, recovering slowly from the calmest election day-and bitterest campaign-in its history, was hardly in a carnival mood. It was still dazed. Juan Pueblo, the man on the Buenos Aires street corner, contemplating the strange, post-election calm, said "Parece raro-Seems funny...