Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago, the former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare left the relative calm of the Urban Coalition to try an experiment in making American institutions work. John Gardner's notion was to create a citizens' superlobby called Common Cause; his dream has come true-sort...
Sleeping Quietly. More disturbing to Estes and the boy's parents were rumors that Kevin's condition had become animallike. Kevin suffers from aphasia, a form of brain damage that makes speech difficult, and from hyperactivity. To calm his hyperactive condition, Kevin normally takes tranquilizers, as well as drugs for epilepsy. After a week, the searchers-who had spotted the boy four times, only to see him run away, once in fear of a clattering helicopter-began to speculate that his struggle with the wilderness had made him hostile and unable to speak to humans at all, even...
CAREFULLY damping its obvious elation, the Nixon Administration moved last week to check the early euphoria as well as to calm the fears generated by the revelation that the President will travel to Peking. Nixon briefed congressional leaders and his Cabinet. Secretary of State William Rogers counseled ambassadors of the most nervous nations, including Taiwan, Japan and the Soviet Union. Out of all the talk came one firm insistence: no agreements-except to talk-have been reached by the long-estranged U.S. and China...
...scared bad," she recalled. "I still am. I've always had this endless energy. Lying there, I thought about having a baby. I think that kind of giving would calm me down. Peace is what I lack. I got into all this too fast, too young. If I could just be Ann-Margret Olsson again, maybe I'd get over this feeling that my nerves are on top of my skin...
Predictably, the source of Adam's madness is the fact of his survival. He was spared the gas chamber at a German camp by Commandant Klein, "who didn't hate Jews any more than the average butcher hates his cows." Adam agrees to calm and amuse the prisoners on their way to the gas chambers. Even when his wife and daughter pass through the line Adam giggles them on, bowing to Klein's austere logic that it is better to spare them as much final pain as possible: "Nothing disturbed Commandant Klein as much as the dread...