Word: matter-of-fact
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Peace First. In a tight, blue suit, Mendès-France stepped briskly forward and nervously began to speak in curt, matter-of-fact tones. It was a daring foray, lucidly drafted and powerfully put. At the center of France's illness, said Mendès-France, is the hemorrhage of war in Indo-China. "Peace negotiated with our adversaries is required by the facts, and such a peace in turn [requires] the putting in order of our finances, revival of our economy and its expansion." But peace first...
From another college source comes a less matter-of-fact appraisal. "A number of professors here are now feverishly trying to obtain positions elsewhere, and many expected to resign in the near future. Department heads and administrators also admit that it is going to be difficulty to recruit new members for the faculty in the near future." The same source expresses deep anxiety over the expansion of political control of Governor Herman Talmadge makes good his threat to make public schools "private schools" in order to contravene the Supreme Court's recent anti-segregation decision...
...Memorial Park. When she was six miles from Bakersfield on her way back, she saw a sallow young man in slacks and a white shirt standing beside a stalled model A Ford. The road was empty of traffic. There were no houses for miles. Mrs. Krone, a friendly, matter-of-fact woman, slowed her 1951 Buick and asked through the open window if she could be of any help...
...same understandable sort of sur prise and fear distorted much of the commentary on the bomb through the Western world last week. President Eisenhower kept his voice even and his answer matter-of-fact when he was asked about the March i explosion at his press conference. It was quite clear, he said, that this time something must have happened that we had never experienced before, and must have surprised and astonished the scientists. But Eisenhower's evenness of tone was lost when unnerved editorial writers in Britain and the U.S. seized on the words "surprised"' and "astonished...
...completing the deepest dive in history. If any group was unimpressed it was the scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute of most descents (Piccard fell asleep on one) the Institute has generally eschewed the dramatic single man exploits and worked instead with teams of scientists in a matter-of-fact litter of colorful instruments. In place of the squat and formidible Bathyscaphe most of the material gathering for the institute is done by the unique Atlantis, a graceful one hundred and forty-two foot steel ketch...