Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German High Command was strangely calm last week. Neither official communiques nor Axis broadcasts reflected the hysteria which has attended the Germans' previous setbacks in Russia...
...inability to give the whys and wherefores for such inhuman antics, but Sanders' performance stands aloof from these frailties. He dominates the picture from the first signs of the impending storm through his emotional typhoon, through the human wreckage that he leaves behind, down to the final calm...
...time the first wounded came home from North Africa last week, smiling from their cots in the train that took them to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, almost a year had passed since that calm Sunday afternoon when the Mare Island Navy Yard intercepted the message: From CINCPAC to all ships present Hawaiian area: Air raid on Pearl Harbor. This is no drill...
Rodriguez & Sutherland first met in August 1940, at a newscasting audition for a Los Angeles drugstore chain. Fiery, mustachioed Sidney Sutherland, 52, retired journalist (New York Sun, Chicago Tribune), magazine writer (Liberty) and Hollywood scenarist, did not quite have what Thrifty Drug Stores wanted. Neither did squat, calm José Rodriguez, 42, native Guatemalan, onetime concert pianist, city editor (Los Angeles Herald...
Over the White House hung the confident calm that comes of effective planning. This was no hectic, fevered day of Pearl Harbor: this time the surprises and the initiative were in American hands. The plans had been made long in advance. The troops had been ready, and the ships. Even as the action began, Franklin Roosevelt's voice went by short-wave transcription to the people of France and French Africa. In slow, schoolboy French (starting with the inevitable Mes Amis) he said: "We come among you to repulse the cruel invaders. . . . Have faith in our words. . . . Help...