Word: calms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...empty of revolutionary ferment. "Too bad." grumped Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, who would like to shoot Batista as a war criminal. "Batista's departure." said U.S. State Department Press Officer Lincoln White, "will contribute to the efforts of the entire American community of nations to restore calm to the Caribbean...
...first-act simpering made sense, for it showed a fool-father truly stupid enough to be gulled by his ugly daughters, Regan and Goneril. Then, as the king wandered mad through the storm, deserted by his daughters, the performance departed the norm again. Laughton's king was strangely calm and compelling. Rarely was he moved to the familiar, passion-torn shrieks of other Lears. His fantastic monologues with himself sounded almost conversational: "Let the great Gods, that keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch...
...Next day calm returned, and the delegates quietly discussed a straight-shooting definition of intervention, introduced earlier by Colombia's Turbay: supplying weapons to start a civil war, allowing the export or import of such weapons, recruiting and training revolutionaries, permitting radio or TV broadcasts that encourage rebellion in another state...
Beneath Dignity. To calm fears among U.S. allies that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. might get together on a Big Two deal, the President made it clear at his special press conference last week that his discussions with Khrushchev would be "exploratory rather than any attempt at negotiation." At the NATO Council meeting in Paris, the U.S.'s NATO Ambassador Randolph Burgess assured the allies that the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meetings would not be a Big Two summit conference...
...press all the plays. One of the most majestically read of the talking books is MGM's Joseph Conrad, in which Sir Ralph Richardson whittles Youth and Heart of Darkness to half-hour slices while preserving their familiarly sea-wallowing cadences: "And on the luster of the great calm waters, the Judea glided imperceptibly, enveloped in languid and unclean vapors...