Word: calms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolution is occurring within the Communist movement because that is where the best minds of these countries have been assembled by force of circumstance." Concludes Salisbury: "The Communist myth in Eastern Europe, never strongly established, seems broken beyond repair. This becomes apparent when even the writers of Czechoslovakia, as calm and conventional as any of their countrymen, quietly explain why Poland and Hungary revolted. The startling fact, most encouraging to the West, is that when men in Eastern Europe begin to challenge communist assumptions they apply democratic principles, often couched with eloquence reminiscent of the great debates of the rights...
...detail of the newspaper's massive move had been left to chance. The date had been picked in consultation with a meteorological firm which assured the paper that the Windy City would remain calm for the operation. In case of traffic tie-ups at the drawbridges, two big speedboats were standing by to haul light equipment across the river. The move went as smoothly as an enchainement in a Royal Ballet Swan Lake. By the time all 44 Linotypes (cost: up to $20,000 each) had been uprooted and replanted, the Sun-Times was able to boast that...
Scientists at the Smithsonian, however, remained markedly calm in the face of the latest Russian achievement. Admitting that Muttnik is "definitely an improvement over the first one," John S. Rinehart, an associate director of the observatory, maintained that the actual force needed to lift the rocket into orbit was not much greater than that used a month...
...calm attitude of Cambridge officials was paralleled in scientific circles in Washington, where Dr. John P. Hagen said "It (the weight of the satellite) doesn't surprise me, since they must have done the same thing with their first satellite." Hagen continued, according to the Associated Press, that the Russians "seem to be using any old hardware they have on hand" for satellite launchers. Hagen's statement implies that he believes the Russians have a stockpile of rockets powerful enough for intercontinental ballistic missiles...
...autumn that began with Little Rock, Byrd's political harvest may well be a record-breaker. Four years ago the G.O.P.'s Dalton won a threatening 45% of the vote, competing against Byrd Candidate Thomas B. Stanley for governor, in an atmosphere of pre-integration calm and post-Eisenhower-election rosiness...