Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the time finally came for the Chinese to make their debut, Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua walked slowly to the giant green marble rostrum, took off his glasses and began, in calm and deliberate tones, to give his hushed audience the Chinese view of the world...
...town, cut telephone communications to West Berlin, and posted proclamations stating that Steinstucken was part of East Germany. They left four days later after the Allies vigorously protested the action. When the Berlin Wall went up in 1961, General Lucius D. Clay made a symbolic gesture designed to calm frightened West Berliners. He took a helicopter across the "death strip" to Steinstucken and evacuated 32 political refugees; a day later, he created what may be the U.S. Army's smallest permanent armed garrison operating openly on foreign soil-a post staffed by three military policemen, who live...
...Egypt's late President Gamal Abdel Nasser in March 1969. Bar-Lev had his answer ready: a 100-mile line of forts, dug into the Suez sand, which weathered massive artillery assaults until the two sides agreed on a cease-fire last year. Meanwhile Elazar, also a monumentally calm commander, was backing up his chief by subduing the Arab fedayeen in the occupied territories...
...state, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini. Afterward, says the Milan newspaper Domenica Del Corriere, Pope John's secretary and protégé Don Angelo Rossi asked what had impressed him most about the trip; was it the audience with His Holiness? "No," was the reply, "I am always calm when I see the Pope. But if there is one personality I stand a little in awe of, that is Monsignor Montini. He always nitpicks my reports." Those reports could not have been all bad. Nitpicker Montini-now Pope Paul VI-eventually ordered an investigation, now in the works...
...will be calm and placid in the White House, but gallons of blood will continue to flow. The moans of the bereaved and of the maimed will not be silenced...