Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Havana, Castro read the statement, picked up the phone, ordered his propagandists to "calm down." The attacks whined to a standstill like a stopped phonograph record. In Washington, a report of the Central Intelligence Agency, in effect the most authoritative official U.S. appraisal of Castro, called him "not a Communist and certainly not an anti-Communist," but a violently anti-American nationalist being used by the Communists in an "intense" drive on Latin America. In Latin America, where Castro's prestige has been shrinking because of this fact, Ike's statement was cheered as wise handling...
Elegant and cadaverous, calm and withdrawn behind his beard. Graves does not sputter on reporters' griddles but speaks with sad, cold force. The intense romanticism of his paintings is absent from his public personality. Back in the U.S. for a brief visit last week, he explained that his Spring with Machine-Age Noises series was painted in anger before leaving the U.S. For him it represents the noise of "jets, chain saws, freight trains, trucks, bulldozers" sweeping over a grassy patch...
...press laws were ostensibly drawn to fill a void in the national statutes, which were vague on the subject of libel. Libel laws clearly were needed in a new democracy whose newspapers were far more inclined to the savage and often baseless personal attack than they were to calm, deliberate judgments. But the laws of Menderes go well beyond mere libel control...
...eight-lane highways that stretch forth like tentacles from San Francisco, it was the time of day that tries men's carburetors: the evening rush hour. Everyone wanted to get home at once. Trapped in a snarling, bumper-to-bumper tie-up, Salesman Bink Beckmann reacted with unusual calm; he had a unique way of keeping his blood pressure down. On a tiny slip of paper he scrawled, "Hold dinner; traffic tie-up"; then he reached behind him into a cage, seconds later sent a homing pigeon fluttering out of the car window. A pigeon fancier, Beckmann carries eight...
Though he teaches calm and control, Newell is far from calm himself. On game days, he keeps going on 20 cups of coffee, three packages of Chesterfields, has a supply of wet towels near him on the bench so that he can chew on them to relieve the tension. Bear players, to whom defense was a mystery before Newell, regard their coach as a genius. Marvels Guard Bobby Wendell: "Before I came here, I didn't even know what defense was. But once you get the hang of it, it's more fun than scoring...