Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself but had a quiet talk with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, whose eventoned eloquence in the General Assembly was the week's best performance. The neutralist leaders, led by India's Jawaharlal Nehru, flitted quietly back and forth engaging in an endless but calm series of talks with each other and with leaders of the great powers. Even New York itself settled down to something resembling order. The passionate pickets of the week before had quieted down, and hardly anybody paid much attention to the whirring sirens, blinking lights and other mixed flavors that plague...
This is not a question of dealing with "our enemies, the Communists," or of being calm and practical in bargaining with "enemy powers"--in this crisis the only enemy is self-wrought destruction. It is a situation which ought to shock us and to force upon us the recognition of a kinship, of a responsibility which is shared by all who have the power to push the button, and of a catastrophe which will be shared universally. There is an urgency about the condition of the present world which leaves no room for personal advantage or for the personal...
...table because "you may kick someone. If this is done, apologize quickly, especially in the case of a lady, for in the West this kind of thing is construed in a certain way and can invite misunderstanding." The ultimate and desperate warning: "Whatever happens, never become flustered. Be calm and cool...
Russia's Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan tried to calm Nikita down by assuring him that Thompson was "in a very difficult position," and in the best wifely tradition, Mrs. Thompson announced that she was ready to accept all blame for the argument. But before tempers cooled, Nikita had spelled out one of his purposes in coming to the U.N.: to ask the General Assembly "to judge the U.S. as an aggressor" because of the U-2 and RB-47 flights...
...calm down for the Olympics, Hary spent hours prowling the countryside, slept late and loafed through practice drills. But when he arrived in Rome, Hary was his old, unmellowed self. The great Jesse Owens, star of the 1936 Olympics, wanted to meet him. Snapped Hary: "I'm sorry. I haven't the time to fool with...