Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There have been few such storms in Sir Lyman's long, calm life. He seemed born for the bench. His first break came with his appointment as Junior Counsel for Canada in the international arbitration of the 36-year-old dispute on the Alaska-B.C. boundary. After the hearings he was called to the British Columbia Supreme Court, two years later was elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada. Then 41, he was the youngest man ever to be appointed...
Leigh-Mallory, a calm, strapping, 51-year-old six-footer, has been the R.A.F. fighter chief since 1942. As commander of R.A.F. No. 12 Fighter Group, he organized the offensives of 1941-42 which whittled away Germany's onetime fighter superiority over western France, and directed the air support for the Dieppe raid in August 1942. Admiral Ramsay is a tough, slit-mouthed, energetic officer who well deserves his nickname "Dynamo," pinned on him in 1940 after he had directed the almost-miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk (code name for which was "Operation Dynamo...
...York City police were not unduly excited. Said Washington Heights's Inspector Joseph Bannon: "The situation is much exaggerated. Things are very calm and collected in Washington Heights." Said Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine: "AntiSemitism is always a problem in a large, heterogeneous city such as New York." But he ordered an increase in mobile detective patrol in the affected areas...
...maxim is "When a plane stops flying, it falls"; and though his approach to the air is cucumber-calm, he also says: "Heaven help us if the human race ever gets to where it isn't afraid of flying." But about the only time he visibly showed any excitement was in 1941, when his son Robert E. Lee (the General was a distant ancestor) became co-pilot on Ham's regular Los Angeles-San Francisco...
...lashing fire of Tarawa marines saw him again. His arms were still folded and his voice was as calm as if he had been sitting at a desk in Washington...