Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor ended all the hopeful cheering by announcing his considered decision-the curfew would stand in New York. And everywhere else-in Reno, where gambling houses had stayed open all night, in Chicago. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami-night spots decided to observe it. In the comparative calm which followed this reluctant acceptance, a Detroit bartender gave the new rule a name. "First we had the race tracks closed," he said. "Then we had the brown out and now we've got the Byrne...
...bait. In Washington, the Rev. Dr. Edgar Schmiedeler, a Catholic welfare official, promptly issued a widely-syndicated press statement: "I think some of Mrs. Roosevelt's remarks are tantamount-unwittingly so, of course-to a decided disservice to the country. . . ." In Boston, the usually aggressive Pilot was quite calm: "Read carefully, read very carefully, Mrs. Roosevelt's statement might pass muster. Possibly it's correct that we should encourage 'really good families,' rather than 'indiscriminate large families' . . . gauged solely from an economic viewpoint. [But] it is unpleasant to meet a sneer, however oblique...
...audacious-but it was the calm audacity of a gambler who bets his stack on a four-ace hand. The main striking force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-so much greater than any other of the world's fleets that such comparisons have become meaningless-steamed undetected, through filthy weather, to within easy fighter-plane range (200 to 300 miles) of Tokyo. It was organized into the Fifth Fleet, under precise, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance. Its carriers again had become Task Force 58, and were under the command of slight, puckish Vice Admiral Marc Andrew ("Pete") Mitscher...
...Dawn broke clear on a calm sea black with ships: 800 craft under Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, the high-domed, hard-driving conqueror of Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Saipan. With Turner on the bridge of his command ship was Lieut. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, boss of the Fleet Marine Force. Loaded on the surrounding transports were the men of Major General Harry Schmidt's V Amphibious Corps: the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions...
...With Italy a hunger-anarchy, France a political economic chaos, Spain, peaceful and calm, is the next bulwark against the Red flood...