Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, for anyone who bothers to make that trip to New Haven during the calm before the storm, the heavily charged political atmosphere is obvious, despite the courtroom decorum, mostly enforced by Seale and Huggins, partly out of pragmatism and partly out of a grudging respect for Judge Mulvey, who seems to try very hard to maintain his high standards of criminal justice and yet to make them fit this unusual case...
...ankles, behind his knees; then his hands do the same at the junctures of your body. You begin to feel lighter and suppler, as if you have just had a backrub or a very hot bath. But you are never passive; the forces and concentration of your breathing calm your fears. Some moments your mind is at rest like a field in summer; other moments harsh memories lodge in the kinks of your muscles. How when you were eight, you made your mother sit by your bed till you fell asleep because you somehow were afraid the planes overhead were...
...another Harvard dealer, who has become inactive this year, has a different theory. He said overall drug use at Harvard has declined not because freshmen and sophomores are so worldly but because they are "in general much straighter than the classes before them... so calm, jockish, and wonkish...
...harder than before the people came to power!" Allende's first measurable test of popularity will come in a nationwide round of municipal elections in early April, when he hopes that his "Popular Unity" front will win control of Chile's major cities. To keep things as calm as possible, the President has announced that a planned visit by Fidel Castro has been postponed until after that vote...
Last week State Supreme Court Justice Frederick M. Marshall saw no merit in the grand jury's charges. After listening to four days' testimony, including the sheriff's statement that campus officials had tried to calm the crowd, the judge found insufficient evidence to convict Hobart and directed the jury to acquit the college. A professor and seven students will be tried later on charges ranging from drug possession to riot. Tongyai, now a police-science student at a nearby junior college, faces another problem. He has been charged with collecting $700 in state unemployment benefits while...