Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearance in the Hollywood Bowl had thrown Los Angeles high-brow music lovers into a self-righteous williwaw, Sinatra's fans at Pasadena, where he got off the train, into a squealing ecstasy (see cut). But Frankie's Los Angeles symphonic debut was like the calm after the storm...
...under honorable conditions. . . . Your part is to cease immediately any assistance to German military forces." But from the palace at Rome, where Benito Mussolini's onetime partners struggled to hold power, the voices said the war must go on, the people must not rage like lions but be calm like sheep...
...that time, however, one of the cagiest men in one of the cooniest communities in the U.S. had seen Miss Bergman's Intermezzo. He usually got what he was after; and he was determined to get her. While calm Miss Bergman sat in Stockholm flicking off her wrist offers which nearly every actress in Europe would have rolled over and begged for, she reckoned without David O. Selznick. In that failure of reckoning began a sort of duel, and a sort of wooing, as rare in Hollywood as victorious talent...
...would never think, to look at him, that solemn-faced Staff Sergeant Maynard H. Smith is a dashing soldier, an intrepid airman. He is a calm, unimpressive man who stands five feet four. In civilian life he worked variously as an income-tax field agent and an assistant receiver for the Michigan State Banking Commission...
...little craft meant "going in fast and low and drawing their planes across the mouths of the enemy guns, as if their planes were handkerchiefs wiping off those foaming, frantically chattering mouths." But since they had "been men a much longer time than they had been soldiers," their calm masked "veritable paroxysms of nerves...