Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's marshals and generals, none has been a more dramatic figure, few have been more popular with their men and the Russian public alike than barrel-chested, black-haired Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky. He combined many characteristics that Russians love: energy, muscular strength, stubborn calm, youthful daring, earthiness. He was up from the black soil, a worker's son, an orphan at nine, a shepherd in the Ukraine, a cadet at Kiev Military School, a total product of the Soviet state...
...internees' characters changed, warped, withered and, in some cases, held firm. Talkative, irrepressible Dodie Morrison was hospitalized with hemorrhages, but her almost childish faith in her soldier husband sustained her courage ("We can't lose. He is so strong and clean and brave"). Katharine Forbes, "frightened but calm," kept busy as a doctor's assistant, trying to hold on, but the pressures drained her ("I am just a shell . . . old and colorless . . ."). Blond, hysterical Vinny Whitney's slight strength soon crumbled. She flaunted herself lustfully at the men, finally took up with Lance Diamond, a husky...
...this country the plan would calm the populace considerably. Take John L. Lewis, for instance. . . . How easy it would be, if we had a king, to knight Lewis. . . . Sir Jonathan Llewellyn Lewisse of Coalhod-on-Cumberland. Isn't it magic? . . . Not a coal miner will listen to him. [Or] a businessman that got obstreperous. . . . You can see him now: Lord Henry Fordson, Earl of V-8-on-Highway...
...week's end, after looking eagerly at things they could not buy, and looking away from things they could not bear, the buyers were quietly desperate. But they may have drawn some comfort from the tailored calm of the attending fashion experts. Declared one woman fashion editor, who refused to be unhorsed by shortages, government, or two-ocean...
...present younger generation (17 to 35), Author Ferber has high hopes -higher, she says, than she has had for anything in a long time. "They are so calm, so poised, so dignified," she says. "They're a little afraid, maybe-who isn't? -but not hysterical...