Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best thing that's happened to us politically in years." A colleague, Ohio's Robert Taft Jr., defended what Nixon did as a proper exercise of his powers as Commander in Chief; Taft argued that it was necessary to restore morale in the armed forces and to calm outrage among the civilian populace...
Kushtia remained calm for 48 hours while the curfew was in effect, although seven persons-mostly peasants who arrived in town unaware of what had happened-were shot to death for being found in the streets. The curfew was lifted on the morning of March 28, and the townspeople began to organize a resistance immediately...
...belonged to the new generation of adventurous but analytical World War I foreign correspondents. He reported the early years of the war from behind French and German lines and hired other dashing young reporters for the News, including his brother Edgar and Raymond Gram Swing, later radio's calm oracle. Mowrer covered the Versailles Treaty talks and the Riff war in Spanish Morocco, became adviser and go-between for diplomats and statesmen. He won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1928, returned home to become editor of the News for nine years...
Following his release from purgatory, Berger displayed the same fatalistic calm he showed during his long detention. "I don't understand why Carol had to die," he said quietly. "But if she had to die, why that way? The doctors, the priests, the policemen, the guards, they are all nice people. I haven't found any devils. They are all nice people, but they acted differently because of the rules, because of pieces of paper...
Another encouraging sign is a high level of enthusiasm and dedication, not exactly a trademark of past Harvard lacrosse teams. Turnout at practices has been good enough to permit regular full-field scrimmages. On the other hand, Harvard will miss the calm temperaments of John Ince and Bruce Regan, the senior leaders of last year's squad...