Word: calms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...postponed the session indefinitely. Archbishop Beran of Prague was refused permission to pray for peace on the Communist-controlled Prague radio. In the streetcars, which used to be favorite political forums, passengers were silent. President Eduard Benes' executive office announced that the President "asks all citizens to maintain calm." Late into the night dense crowds surged through the streets, shouting confused slogans...
...inclination and character, at least, Schuman was fitted for his task. He had few friends. He was so shy that he blushed when he was paid a polite compliment. The French language, which is made for oratory, in his speeches sounded plain and calm. His favorite cartoon character was Ferdinand the Bull. In a land resounding with the Marseillaise and the Internationale, Schuman said quietly: "I have a poor ear for music." He was a part of the sturdy old antediluvian France...
Korea, Land of the Morning Calm, was on the verge of a new day. But dawn was coming up like thunder...
...written with a calm, thoughtful air, describing in great detail the mental processes and the doings of some of the unloveliest people ever seen outside the caricatures of George Grosz. The first of the three books is The Romantic, laid in 1888, and picturing the world of potbellied landowners and their sensitive sons, a world of meaningless propriety, duels, love affairs with actresses; a world so hedged about with tradition that it is a scandal when a young officer leaves the army to manage the family estate. It is the other side of German romanticism-Unter den Linden with...
...satisfied, he gave up. Then the studio went to work on the problem. How about The Unguarded Heart? Huxley winced. How about Art of Murder? Huxley shuddered. Or Black Velvet? Huxley beat his temples. Well, then: Vengeance? Or Woman of Vengeance? Huxley's wife tried to calm him down. All right, A Woman's Vengeance...