Word: calms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrived on the run, flushed and hurried over an overlong chat with Peace Corps workers." As a member of the U.S. delegation in Santo Domingo, I accompanied the Vice President to the ceremony in the Congress building. Our party was one of the first to arrive. The arrival was calm, unflushed and unhurried...
Dreamy Fiction. Malraux himself gave a dreamily fictional account of his brush with the law in his 1930 adventure novel, The Royal Way. There, his hero Claude takes it all with existential calm: "Thanks to the fallen stone, he was suddenly in harmony with the forest and the temple. He pictured the three stones as they had been, one above the other; the two dancing girls were some of the purest work he had ever seen. Well, the next thing was to load them onto the carts...
...find out, NASA engineers installed television cameras inside the SIV B's hydrogen fuel tank. All through the acceleration of blastoff, and while the Saturn I first stage was pushing the SIV B aloft, the TV screens at the Houston control center showed the liquid hydrogen settled and calm on the bottom of the tank, its surface barely rippling. After the first stage had dropped away and the SIV B's engine was fired to insert it into orbit, the level of the liquid hydrogen could be seen dropping rapidly as fuel was consumed in the combustion chamber...
...ripped loose from the churning surface and began to drift upward. Ground controllers immediately radioed signals that opened the SIV B's tank vents, allowing escaping gases to accelerate the vehicle slightly. On the screen, the globs could be seen obediently settling back to the surface. "It looks calm," the controllers reported. "It's behaving itself. There's no sloshing...
...year performance comes from regents, faculty and students alike. Regent Norton Simon (TIME cover, June 4, 1965) says that Heyns has "achieved excellent balance between the rights of the students and the maintenance of the university traditions." Cal President Clark Kerr cites his "keen intelligence, great good sense, and calm but effective style." Former Student President Jerry Goldstein calls him "an absolutely fantastic individual, with warmth and humor...