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Word: calms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undergraduates are normally a resilient group, but the parties and dances Saturday evening were just a bit less noisy and cheerful at the beginning of the evening. But as the night progressed, happiness returned. The calm acceptance that is the heritage of the Harvard football fan had begun to assert itself...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Anatomy of a Defeat | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

What Would You Say? Patty worked hard to get ready for her tryout. boned up on Helen Keller's early problems. When she appeared for her audition, she was thoroughly prepared. "What would you say if you were Helen Keller?" asked Director Arthur Penn. Answered Patty with calm assurance: "I wouldn't say anything. I couldn't talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Old Pro at Ten | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...call myself an upholder of law and order." While Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus worked tirelessly against both law and order in his campaign to keep the city's schools lily-white, Editor Ashmore became a rallying point for Southern moderates, won a Pulitzer Prize for his calm editorial voice. Last week, surveying Little Rock's now-peaceful school scene, Harry Ashmore, 43, announced that he is leaving to take on a new job as consultant to the Fund for the Republic's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Peacetime Departure | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...bared the wires," he said, "and wrapped one around the spoon and placed it against the heart. I wrapped the other around a retractor and placed it against the shoulder. A third fellow plugged the wire in.'' After four jolts of current, the fluttering heart was calm; 15 minutes after its own last beat, normal pumping was resumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Spoon & the Cord | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Osborne is widely regarded as a deplorable cynic and naysayer, but in Cliff, who plays a wise, calm, and modest Horatio to Jimmy's Hamlet, he has created a character who must be unique in modern drama: a handsome young man who lives with a married couple, tied to them both by the warmest affection, yet endowed with hot pants for neither...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Look Back in Anger | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

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