Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Running Battle. After the first Manila raids (Sept. 9-10), Bull Halsey, with his hair slicked back and his khaki shirt newly starched, had entertained his staff aboard his flagship at a predated Thanksgiving dinner. For an hour or so, life had seemed calm and leisurely. But there was no leisure or slow movement now. Bull Halsey whipped his forces through the enemy's inner waters with the speed and precision he had first shown long ago as a pint-sized fullback at Annapolis...
...very special Briton. For the reckless abandon of the Paris taximan, the invective flow of the Cairo driver, the proletarian dynamism of the Moscow hackman-who, even before the German invasion, drove his car as if it were a tank-the London cabby substitutes a shatterproof Cockney calm. Last week that calm was somewhat ruffled. The London cabby had his back up. He had decided to enter politics...
...sizable coaching shoes of Frank Leahy (now a Navy lieutenant) and found them a perfect fit. Once before, in 1942, he subbed for Leahy and steered Notre Dame to victories over Stanford, Iowa Pre-Flight and Illinois. That time, he admits, he was so scared the kids had to calm him down. This time, the happy-go-lucky Texan (he played for Texas Tech) has half-kidded, half-finessed his man-sized freshmen into blocking and tackling the way Knute Rockne's veterans once...
...weathermen first spotted the hurricane when it towered up off the West Indies, at about lat. 16° N., long. 60° W. It was a monstrous specimen-a spinning funnel of black storm with a 140-mile-an-hour gale lining its core of calm. For six days, moving as a body about 15 m.p.h., it churned a path 500 miles wide up & across the Atlantic. And for six days U.S. meteorologists clocked its forward progress, studied its habits, and charted its course (see SCIENCE). When it hit North Carolina's ocean bulge on the seventh...
...North American hurricanes start in the same area. Somewhere in "the doldrums," a generally calm region in the equatorial Atlantic between the Cape Verde Islands and the West Indies, waves of heated air molecules begin to rise from the warm sea. As cooler molecules rush in from the sides to take their place, and the rising air, saturated with ocean vapor, cools off in the upper atmosphere, the air currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record...