Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coming Round. The quietest people on campus were Students Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, well aware that the mob-sparked expulsion of Negro Coed Autherine Lucy* from the University of Alabama in 1956 was clinched by her charge that it was a frame-up. Last week their calm paid off. On the first day, they were each convoyed by one university official and two detectives, on the second by one detective trailing 30 feet behind, and on the third day they walked alone. By week's end, they were almost ignored...
Rathbone's self-assured, calm efficiency and a record of building his subsidiary into a topnotch operating company won him the post of president of Esso Standard in 1944. He moved on to Jersey Standard's board of directors in 1949, became president in 1954, and took over as chairman of the executive committee and chief executive in 1960 when Eugene Holman resigned. "Getting along is the key to success," says Rathbone. "I've always been fortunate in being able to get people to work with...
...tail flipper. By sheer good fortune, he had flown with just the right combination of power, speed and weight to keep the damaged flipper from pulling too far away from the rest of the tail. On the very same day, an Eastern Air Lines DC-4, cruising in calm air over Bainbridge, Md., had the same trouble, nosed over into a death dive that killed all 53 on board...
...existed mainly on the patronage of Greek and Turkish families. Customers often bring their children; between performances, enthusiastic young men from the audience will take the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces. Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption. Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka, a small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer glass; the def, a low-pitched tambourine...
...party was rather frightening, Wellington thought. But Eugenie most definitely was not. Wellington tried hard not to stare at her well-filled sweater, and essayed to remain calm as she rested her head on his shoulder. Her casual chatter still lacked something...