Word: calms
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...nostrils stick together, the Albanian coast appeared as a thin line over the sea in the east to a silent row of British battleships approaching Valona. Not far inland, the Greeks were slogging slowly ahead with their mountain warfare through deep snowdrifts. The sea was cold, grey and unusually calm for the Adriatic. Just before sunrise Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham ordered: "Open fire." The big ships belched thunderously and shook...
...last week. Day & night the streets around his Mexico City house were jammed with cars for two blocks. Each morning there were close to 150 names on his waiting list-people waiting for positions, men with axes to grind and hates to vent. Through it all, Avila Camacho remained calm, and kept the pleased expression of a man with a fish on his line...
...convoy of 38 ships was strung out in line on a calm sea. The sun was just setting, gloriously. The raider appeared from the north. At about eight miles' distance (14,000 yd.) it started hurling 11-inch shells, the first of which fell just short of the 16,698-ton Rangitiki, largest member of the convoy and first to signal the alarm...
...this is harmless when compared to its effort of last night. Hardly a word was spoken of the dangers of war. What looked like a choice was presented to the people: "Do we as a free people agree that the Axis powers must be defeated?" Calm judgment, and weighing of the real alternatives are thus neatly dispensed with, and yet there is no blatant emotionalism to antagonize anyone. Thus does President Conant present the great question...
...suspenders), run for the engines, and are speeding away with screaming sirens in less than a minute. The visitor, impressed by the leisure of the station, often forgets this other part of the fireman's life: the midnight alarm, the race through crowded or icy streets, and the calm heroism obscured by heavy smoke. He forgets that there are always a couple of the men doing their loafing in the Cambridge City Hospital and that from an occasional one of the 1800 alarms the engines answer each year some fireman doesn't return...