Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haven't discussed next year," Stevens said." We're hoping things in Iran calm down a bit so we won't have to face that decision...
...executive committee of the college cancelled classes to allow the meeting. A coalition of students from different minority groups and the Inter-fraternity Council planned the day to educate students about the needs of minorities and to calm the tension the issue has recently provoked...
Vastola has a temperament that seems perfectly suited to fencing. Self-assured, with a calm exterior that hides a fiercely competitive interior, he possesses both the poise and the intensity which are necessary ingredients of success in this demanding sport...
...humor as skillfully as he might have. In the second act, when the marriage begins to show signs of strain, an affair between Leo and Faye abruptly surfaces in an obvious attempt to give the play a little comic relief. This humorous interlude begins promisingly: Leo's attempts to calm the skittish Faye and disentangle her from a toga-style bed-sheet provide the most hysterical moments in Chapter Two. But this farcical scene turns solemn, too. Faye admits she doesn't really want to have an affair--"I don't have a good enough reason for being here"--while...
Commenting on the free throws, Fine said yesterday afternoon, "I tried to look calm in order to be calm. I thought if I shot straight the distance would be right. It was a great feeling when they went in," he added...