Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declared in the three provinces most affected; 4.000 fresh troops and militiamen were sent in to reinforce the local authorities. But the cops were careful to avoid excessive trouble. Avoiding a showdown. Franco sent a trusted Cabinet aide, burly Sindicatos Boss Jose Solis Ruiz, to the region to calm the striking workers. It worked, but only after Solis talked himself hoarse for two weeks in speeches and conferences with worker councils-and only after promising to grant many of the wage demands. For Franco Spain, this was extraordinary; Spanish workers, breaking the regime's sternest decree, had not only...
After a few days of relative calm on Wall Street, investors last week decided again that the stock market was no place for their money. Rushing in with sell orders that pushed volume on the New York Stock Exchange up to a frantic 6,240,000 shares, they knocked the Dow-Jones industrial average down to 560.28 on Thursday. June 14. It was the lowest close since December 1958. Next day there was a predictable rebound, as short sellers moved in to replace at bargain prices stock that they had borrowed when it was higher. Even so, the Dow-Jones...
Without much hope, the doctors started all the standard treatments: a hefty shot of tetanus antitoxin (to counteract the poison released by the bacteria in the festering wound), penicillin to reduce the spread of infection, sedatives to calm the anguished patient, and muscle relaxants to ease his stiffening, contorted body. They cleaned the infected wound and put Douma in an oxygen tent (because the nerve center that controls breathing is especially susceptible to tetanus poison). But it seemed to be too late. During the next 24 hours, Douma suffered several convulsions and muscle spasms. His back arched like...
...Amsterdam Exchange maintained the appearance of stolid Dutch calm so well that in the midst of a sell-off that sent Philips Lamp plummeting from $205 to $185, a tourist wandered onto the floor under the impression that he was in a museum...
...Barcelona gathered around the palace of Archbishop Gregorio Modrego y Casáus, seeking more aid in their dispute with employers. When police pushed to the scene, priests mingled with the protesting mob to restrain both workers and police from violence. Finally the archbishop himself appeared, to urge calm and send the workers on their...