Word: calmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like hens in a gathering thunderstorm, the men of good will hoped that somehow a miracle would avert a deluge of chaos, anarchy and civil war. Only the little man remained calm. U.S. Correspondent A. T. Steele, visiting his retreat at Sevagram last week, described it as "a dude ranch, a Father Divine 'heaven,' a Mennonite colony, a collective farm and an agricultural station, with everybody a vegetarian." There Mohandas K. Gandhi relaxed, listened to his inner voice, took abdominal mudbaths to husband his waning strength...
Suddenly several youths in seersucker coats appeared. The men sitting in the chairs glowered at them. The women ignored them. Six fainted and fell out of the third floor window. The youths were very calm. They walked on slowly. And then, a bugle sounded. All the soldiers with anchors on their hats marched out and the youths in seersucker coats were plainly disturbed. They ran and hid in a big building with huge white pillars and long flat steps. The visitors never saw them again...
Deep within the now-forbidden interior of Grays, Wigglesworth, Weld, lies the domain of that mysterious entity, that unknown creature who has blithely and with such calm self-assurance taken her place as part of the College...
...know, is a serious business. It is called by the Army, to test our defenses against bombing raids. Harvard's record in former tests has been excellent. New students can help make this one a success, too, by remembering to turn out all lights before going to bed, keep calm when the sirens sound, keep all lights off unless they have blackout blinds, and not to go out-of-doors...
...volunteer was called into the receiving room to help calm a resisting little boy who was vociferously trying to explain to the dozens of other shouting members of his family why he did not need an appendectomy. The orderly succeeded so well that he had to accompany the boy to the operating room and hold his hand...