Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outraged condemnations of our barbaric government policy at every possible opportunity. It is not enough to wait until next January in hopes that a new President will take office with the declaration that all aid to Thieu is being cut off. Even if such a President were elected, the calm interim in America would be bought with the limbs and lives of brave Indochinese who refuse to give in to the dictates of an arrogant regime and an intransigent foreign power...
...Gary tells the story of the team's season (which peaks at the big game with West Centrex Biotechnical), it becomes evident that the Logos College football team--and the entire school--is dogged by encroaching madness and violent death. All of which makes the sophisticated and calm Gary Harkness, even with his oddities, one of the more stable guys on the team...
Nixon sought to calm critics, mostly conservatives, who fear that the two pacts will permit the Russians to gain a decisive nuclear advantage. Democratic Senator Henry Jackson and Conservative-Republican Senator James Buckley both contend that the Russians could use the freeze, which does not limit technological improvement of existing systems, to overcome the huge present U.S. lead (5,700 to 2,500) in deliverable warheads. "I have studied the strategic balance in great detail for more than three years," Nixon said. "I can assure you that the present and planned strategic forces of the United States are without question...
...method were switched to irregular reward, "they went to pieces," hitting their heads against the walls, flapping their wings, and pecking wildly at everything in sight. By contrast, birds trained on the intermittent system did not go wild when a correct peck failed to produce food. Instead, they stayed calm, continued to peck only at red, and soon were rewarded with the "deserved" snack...
...Bierstadt, who joined an expedition to the Rockies in 1859 and later worked up a series of big landscapes from his sketches. Estes Park, Colorado, 1869, is a magnificently rhetorical painting, but the hyperbole was constrained by Bierstadt's lyric exactness of eye as it roved across the calm lake and the billowing mist and crags behind. Such, the brush insists, are the lineaments of an earthly paradise...