Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ophuls, as Griffith, appeals unerringly to our unspoken but only rarely articulated assumptions about ourselves. Christian de la Masiere is cool, calm, collected and seemingly able to put a distance between his reflective and active selves. No matter how much we may hate the words and ideas he expresses, we cannot help but admire and respect these qualities. Our emotional response to these qualities of character transcends our abhorrence of the man's actions...
With that threat of action against wage and price raisers, Nixon was trying to calm fears that his month-old Phase III is a retreat from the fight against inflation. To help make the point, two of the most powerful men in Government took the stick out of the closet last week and started swinging...
Ylvisaker called the meeting in part to calm uneasiness in the school about impending reorganization. "Some people are worried about their jobs," he said. He promised all currently enrolled students a "grandfather clause" to permit them to graduate in the programs they are currently enrolled in, and assured faculty and staff that he would respect their preferences in job reassignments...
...breath. Across the street, three Vietnamese marines emerged from an alley and cuffed a man in Vietnamese army green across the street into our shop. The marines were angry. They yelled at the prisoner, pushed him around and threatened him with their rifles. The man was frightened but calm; he obviously thought the Ranger patch on his sleeve assured his safety. Just then a battered civilian car clanked up, and a sweating Vietnamese marine lieutenant jumped out. The marines chattered excitedly. The lieutenant listened impassively. The prisoner waited. I stood directly beside him, but I never saw the lieutenant...
...could I have written those letters which I have only recently recovered?"* Mrs. Lindbergh asks in her preface. "How could I have been so self-controlled, so calm, so factual, in the midst of horror and suspense? And, above all, how could I have been so hopeful? Ten weeks of faithfully recorded details have the emotional unreality of hallucination. It was, of course, a nightmare...