Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's collective relief. The massive march by Catholic civil rights protesters through the border town of Newry had been peaceful, with no repetition of Londonderry's Bloody Sunday, which saw 13 people killed by British army bullets. Later in the week, Ulster remained relatively calm during a "day of disruption" called by Catholics to mark the first six months of the government's policy of internment. Brief though it might turn out to be, the respite from violence and tension gave all parties concerned a chance to think again about whether a political solution was still...
They live along the Motoyasu-gawa, or River of Eternal Calm, which flows through the now prosperous city of Hiroshima. The river is lined with their tin and wooden shacks crowded together in a sewerless shantytown. After years as outcasts, they are bitter. They feel disinherited by their own government...
Only the sergeant remains calm. He killed out of anger, and is perfectly willing to pay for it. But nothing is simple any more. Justice gets lost in a welter of lawyers' ambitions and personal problems, fatal misunderstandings, official deception and senseless violence. Anything resembling youthful idealism, compassion or hope either gets destroyed or freaks...
...while she is the stupidest of her clan, is also the most grasping. She is engaged to Ludwig Leferrier, an idealistic young American who refuses to fight in Viet Nam and faces prosecution if he goes home. In love, Ludwig comes to prize his fiancee's "nerve and calm ignorance." Indeed, she is the best literary creation in the book, scot-free of altruistic impulse, a blithe compendium of pinchy little maxims about avoiding anyone who is in the slightest trouble: "Bad luck is a sort of wickedness in some people...
AGRICULTURE: Farm price supports in the current year will leap $1.8 billion over original estimates to a total of $4.4 billion, then will decline slightly in 1973 as acreage is taken out of production. Retail food prices will remain high, and farmers' incomes will also rise, helping calm the farm belt revolt that threatens to deny Nixon some of his traditional support...