Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frosty Calm. Nikita Khrushchev would be coming to the U.S. only four months after he had broken up the Summit, personally insulted the President, slammed the door on the President's trip to Russia, and spurred Communist agitation in Japan against Ike's visit there. He would be sitting in the U.N., dedicated to peace and world order, in his capacity as the world's No. 1 international troublemaker, and representing a system, as Secretary of State Christian Herter said in a speech to the American Bar Association last week, that is "the central obstacle...
Washington's official reaction was a frosty calm. Apart from taking security measures to guard against any assassination attempt, said U.S. officials, the U.S. Government would not be involved with Khrushchev's visit. As a chief of government he has a right to head his country's U.N. delegation, but the U.S. would not consider him a state visitor to the U.S.. would treat him on the same terms as any other U.N. delegation chief...
Short & Simple. "When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high," he wrote in Carousel, "and you'll never walk alone." In a hurricane, he could unerringly find the calm center: in 1943, when wartime headlines were black with death on coral beaches, Oklahoma! opened on Broadway, and Hammerstein's words carried across the world the picture of a beautiful morning, "a bright golden haze on the meadow." Just then, many people everywhere were grateful for the reminder that such a thing existed. In a slicker mood, he could be both cute and funny...
...seems to me that the American people are always denied the benefit of the doubt. When they get excited and start calling for the Marines and generally throwing their weight about, they are castigated for being hysterical children. Yet when they remain calm and unruffled, they are castigated for being lethargically senile, too tired and flaccid for world leadership ... I do not wish to suggest, of course, that all is well with...
...flew a twin-engined Aero Commander in 1957 to 30,361 ft., a world altitude record for a plane of its class, last year piloted another Commander over an official 2,000-kilometer course at an average speed of 226,148 m.p.h. for another class record. "She's calm as hell in a plane," says an Oklahoma pilot. "There's no fumbling with the radio dials for new frequencies, no fluttering of charts. She's the best organized girl pilot I've ever seen-and the most feminine...