Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last to go was calm, straight-mouthed Captain Elliott Buckmaster. Next to last was the captain's little brown-skinned mess boy. He lowered the boy on a line, then followed him down. The boy was hysterical when he reached the water. The captain dragged him to a raft, pushed him up before he climbed on himself...
...courage, discipline and with the luck of calm weather, the U.S. Navy had performed a feat at sea. Last week it told the story: how it had rescued some 1,600 men from one of the sea's worst perils, a burning ship far from port, without losing a life...
...Sept. 3, sea calm, weather clear, when smoke plumed from the forward deck of what in peacetime was the liner Manhattan, now the busy transport Wakefield. The 24,289-ton ship was steaming westward with about 950 passengers (civilian and Army personnel from England) and 650 crewmen. In one of the passengers' cabins a fire had started and begun to spread. The plume of smoke filled to a straight black pillar in the almost windless air, within view of all ships in the convoy. A minute later the seriousness of the sight was vouched for: the Wakefield broke radio...
...wage and fair-price ceilings. O'Neal, on no such good terms with labor, swore it could not be so. If O'Neal was right, any effective inflation-control program was a political impossibility. His big head bobbing in emphasis, Patton drove home his answers. Patton remained calm, sure of his ground. O'Neal was mad enough to burst. For once the President let others talk, sat back enjoying Challenger Patton's able performance...
...Suburbs mushroom. Money flows, men are men without women. Everybody works. Always people look to sea for ships that carry things to buy: war has made a hurdy-gurdy of the town (pop. 179,356 in 1940) which romanticists used to eulogize as the place of abundant calm, a fair haven where even mynah birds waxed so fat that they hardly bothered to get out of way of wheel or foot...