Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make it safety back to earth. As the command module Endeavour came into sight high above the fluffy clouds over the Pacific, it became apparent that one of its three big orange-and-white chutes was fouled and thus not supporting its share of the load. Dropping into the calm seas 300 miles north of Hawaii several feet per second faster than planned, the moonship created a mighty splash. But despite the jolting landing the astronauts were safely home. Man's fourth and most productive moon-landing mission had ended successfully...
Desultory Demonstrations. Though the new U.S. policy put Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime at a decided disadvantage. Taipei was outwardly calm. The regime issued a terse statement that merely promised a fight for Taipei's "lawful rights and position" in the U.N., and warned that the organization could "drift into impotence and total failure" if Peking is admitted...
Along the canal, TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark found an almost dreamlike calm, the silence broken by only the cawing of a blackbird and the sound of popular music from a radio in an Israeli bunker. Visitors were greeted by a red-and-white sign in Hebrew: LEISURE AND HOLIDAY VILLAGE. Near by, Israeli troops could see the skyline of the deserted city of Suez shimmering in the haze, and sometimes caught a glimpse of Egyptian soldiers swimming, fishing or making occasional threatening gestures in their direction. For their part, the Israelis tended tomato patches, sunned themselves or played chess...
...televised interview aired throughout West Pakistan last week, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan was almost preternaturally calm as he uttered the chilling words. "Total war with India is very near," said Pakistan's President. "There is a limit to our patience, and we are very close to it." Alarmist talk? Perhaps. Yet in the capitals of both countries, foreign diplomats rate the chances of averting a conflict at no better than fifty-fifty...
...soup. Ionesco's black joke scarcely exaggerates the monstrous disproportion, the near pathology, of latter-day anger. If every period has its characteristic emotion, anger must surely be ours-the mask of cracked civility, the furious heart beneath. Yale President Kingman Brewster described the comparative calm of the American campus last winter as "eerie tranquillity," and the U.S. as a whole now seems to be enjoying relative quiet after the stormiest period of demonstrations, bombings and riots. That very calm gives us time to look back on anger. But eerie is nevertheless the operative word. The fact that...