Word: calms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end tension was slackening in Sains, as it was elsewhere in France, but the mines of Sains we're still closed and the Abbé was still on guard. "This calm bodes evil," he said. "I don't trust it. I'm not afraid and the town knows that. Those who do not follow me as a priest respect me as the mayor...
...disease. On another occasion he had a hallucination that he had seen a baby rise from the sea and clap its hands at him. But Nicolson insists that Shelley was "on the whole" sane: "After all, even Goethe (who assuredly was a man of the most Olympian calm and sanity) once met himself riding along a road on horseback...
...jovial sort, always calm and collected, Prio is the physical type the Cubans call "criollo"': dark hair (greying at 44), black mustache, a toothpaste-ad smile. He is a neat dresser, a quiet talker. Except for his antiCommunism, he has no platform so far. He promises only to carry on Grau's policies, hoping that the growing anti-Red, anti-Russian feeling, combined with general satisfaction with Grau's record, will be enough to put him in the Palace...
...President walked down the aisle of the House, there was no inkling of the shockers he had in store. For 15 minutes, as he talked about ERP, Congressmen listened with calm attentiveness, applauded politely at intervals...
...city has 65,000 Negroes, 15% of the population. For whatever sociological or economic reasons, Negroes had generally been involved wherever the police could get a line on a crime. But to calm observers it seemed that the crime wave-if it was one-could be blamed on the police rather than on any racial group. The force has had four chiefs in five years. Its merit system doesn't work. There is lack of cooperation between the cops and the courts; hoodlums with long records walk the streets on low bail. One man even drove a truck...