Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President invoked them. Correspondents at a regular press conference saw him in vigorous mood, as ebullient and confident as in the crisis days of 1933. Behind him sat pale, libertarian Frank Murphy. Mr. Roosevelt announced that what he was about to say would justify no scarelines, nothing but calm. He said this again, and again. "For the proper observance, safeguarding and enforcing of the neutrality of the United States," he then proclaimed a national emergency. (Orally he called it a "limited emergency" by way of minimizing it.) By that stroke he assumed many powers which would be his in actual...
Even at the grim work of preparation, the Poles maintained an outward calm. To the Army, of which every Pole was proud, would fall the job of defending frontiers and stopping battalions. To the people fell the job of protecting themselves against bombs, gas, dissension, terrorism, discouragement. They did it magnificently...
...Deputized vigilantes from nearby towns and farms shot down five pickets, took over the dam site, behaved so raucously that Colorado's Governor Ralph L. Carr dispatched National Guardsmen to suppress "a state of insurrection." Distressed by the bloodshed, put out by delay, Roy Warner remembered his wise, calm friend in Chicago...
...dreaded: totalitarian war in which women & children, the aged and the ill, civilians as well as military, orders sacred and orders profane, would all be devastated regardless. Ambassador Joe Kennedy returned to a Britain preparing for death on a scale it believed impossible to exaggerate. Yet Britain was calm, methodical, at moments almost whimsical-completely different from last September...
...that might be used, of a shuttle service of air attacks-British and French planes, starting from France, bombing German munitions plants and industrial centres, landing in Poland to refuel and bomb their way back. Levelly, the semi-official Kurjer Czerwony summed up the Polish state of mind: "Poland, calm and watchful, awaits Berlin's choice of peace...