Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again. In 1936 Stalin, in reply to a press query concerning rumors of his death, artfully paraphrased Mark Twain: "I know from reports of the foreign press that I long ago abandoned this sinful world. ... I request you to believe them and don't disturb me in the calm of the other world...
...week of harmony, and this week would be another, with Winston Churchill absent, nursing a sore throat. But the calm was illusory. Troublous weeks and months of struggle were ahead...
...important question of what the Government's fiscal policy should be, the committee advocated a compensatory budget for the U.S.-i.e., a federal budget balanced over the business cycle instead of every year. With a calm assurance that will raise the hackles of conservatives, the committee said: "It is generally agreed that an annual balance of the budget is impractical...
...calm and be mature. We have made not a bad, but a good, beginning. That beginning has not created difficulties. It has merely revealed difficulties of long standing, which war has obscured. It is healthy that we now know the facts. Furthermore, we have at the beginning shown that we stand firm for basic principles. That is of transcendent importance...
...enormity of the case, the nauseating precision of its bestial details, were almost too much for the mechanism of British legal procedure. But the mechanism worked. The five British officers on the bench, and the learned judge advocate in grey wig and black robe, were dry-voiced and calm. Chief Prosecutor Colonel T. M. Backhouse worked his way through a maze of atrocities with a minimum of emotion (on the trial's tenth day, he went straight from the courtroom to officiate at a wedding...