Word: calms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rose City, Mich. (pop. 350), neighbor was set against neighbor. There were secret meetings, plots and stratagems. Mayor Norton King plastered the town with placards: "Keep calm and collected for a few days until we can settle this among ourselves." Old Mrs. Jennie Lazenby said she hadn't seen so much excitement since the lumbering days. The cause of all the rumpus was the Rev. Cecil Scott...
...Bulgaria (see above) and elsewhere, there might be tranquillity of a sort, even behind iron bars. But did much of the world want to be calm on such terms? In the free world, many men, trying to get the issues straight in their minds, were attempting definitions. None put the strength of the free world's case better than did U.S. Statesman & Churchman John Foster Dulles this week, in a speech at Northwestern University. Said Dulles: [The quest for peace] "requires that the moral issue be clarified. That issue is not the issue of economic communism against capitalism...
...Copying that on canvas, and painting the dawn stealing in the prop window, Fildes inserted the characters he had in mind: worried parents hovering in the shadows, their sick little girl feverishly sleeping in the light of an oil lamp, and the bearded doctor leaning over her, kindly and calm...
Wheel-Shaped City. In Changchun itself-the modern, wheel-shaped city of green trees and creamy buildings which the Japs built as a capital for puppet Manchukuo-the sturdy Manchu citizenry were doing their best to remain calm. During the months of cowboy-&-Indian type warfare around Changchun, civilians could (and many did) pile on to trains heading south toward Peiping. But, with the rails cut, civilians were stuck...
...experience in two important ways: 1) it had taught them that there are many more psychoneurotics at large than anyone had previously imagined (of all Army inductees, a startling 12% were rejected for mental disorders); and 2) it had provided clinical proof that no one, no matter how calm and complacent, is immune to psychoneurosis if the emotional strains get tough enough...