Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less appropriate focus for change. But local energies, like today's women's protest, and whatever difference exists between the consciousness of the Class of '73 and that of the classes of 10 or 50 years ago belie Commencement's placid tone. Richard Nixon has brought not a calm, but a smoldering and unresolved tension...
Still, there was some early doubt as to whether nature had intended Secretariat to run or just to be admired for his looks, his intelligence and his calm disposition. All big, growthy horses go through periods when, like awkward teenagers, they seem to be constantly tripping over their own feet. In Secretariat's case there was another problem: an insatiable appetite...
...calm has been disturbed, of course, by Secretariat's reputation. Reporters and photographers have shown up frequently and curious passers-by try for a glimpse of the horse or for a word with Laurin. That kind of turmoil, together with the pressure and travel of the Triple Crown competition, could give any thoroughbred fits. Secretariat seems immune to nerves...
...race horse knows a day he is to run because his usual ration of hay disappears. Many animals become edgy, difficult to handle. Secretariat is so calm that just before the Derby he lay down for a refreshing 90-minute snooze. He did the same thing just before the Preakness. A TV crew does not faze him. Recently, while a handler was being interviewed, Secretariat calmly began to nibble on the microphone on the off chance that it was edible. Once, while the horse was being led to stable by Groom Ed Sweat, the leather strap broke off in Sweat...
Rich Quick. But then a measure of calm returned. Gold eased back and closed the week at around $105 per oz., and the dollar regained some of its strength against other currencies. Some financial experts saw the outcome as the result of normal profit taking by instantly rich gold speculators, and of a spreading belief that after two devaluations since late 1971, the dollar is actually undervalued. Other moneymen, however, thought that the floating system had worked exactly as it was supposed...