Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the on-again, off-again nature of the event, Tricia was reported to be cool, calm, and collected. In contrast, her groom appeared to be visibly nervous when forced to take Tricia from her father...
...scene in the cavernous committee room was deceptively calm. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was smiling and attentive. The chief witness, Treasury Secretary John Connally, was relaxed and cordial. There was little outward sign that these two wily, vastly experienced politicians were meeting in a head-on clash over the Nixon Administration's top-priority bill, the measure that proposes to share an initial $5 billion a year in federal revenues with the states and cities...
...Feather River; the total stood at 25. The only suspect in the case, Juan Corona, 37, a taciturn farm-labor contractor, was arraigned in Sutler County Courthouse and charged with ten counts of murder (he will be charged with more when the remaining bodies are identified). He remained calm; in his behalf, his lawyer pleaded not guilty to each of the charges...
Displaying its ability to remain calm under tournament pressure, Harvard's varsity baseball team swept two close victories from UMass Monday, 2-1, 4-2, and advanced to the World Series Championship...
...ponders the implications of the past for the present and the future. When he saw the play 1776 recently, he was struck by the vigor and passion of the founding fathers as they debated the course of the new nation. But he was also impressed by 'the underlying calm of those remarkable men' as they grappled with the monumental task of writing a Constitution in the dust and grime and heat of Philadelphia in the summer...