Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group of American women stepped out of the embassy in the custody of three heavily armed men. One white-haired, older woman was weeping with fright. A middle-aged woman in blue slacks was quietly talking to her captors, trying to calm herself as much as them. A young blond woman swung her fists angrily in the air to keep everybody away from...
...Bird was a model of calm consistency in last week's 100-75 victory over West Texas. He effortlessly scored 27 points, grabbed 19 rebounds and passed brilliantly. "You can't take your eyes off him one second or he'll hit you in the face with the ball," says Teammate Carl Nicks. Three nights later, Bird registered 20 points and 13 rebounds as Indiana State ran its record to 24-0 with a 69-68 win over Southern Illinois. Still, Bird−when he talks−is frank enough to say, "It's great...
This brittle calm was shattered on March 7, the following year. While attending a funeral at a mosque General Raumara was shot dead. His assassin was a member of a militant religious group called the Devotees of Islam. Eight days later the Iranian parliament passed a bill providing for the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company...
...least, clearly Jimmy Carter's home. Anyone with the time to wander the county, to wait for the strong old rhythms of its life to sound their bass beneath the cashbox jingle, will see how the place has added to the man large measures of its own calm, its silent demonstration (at field's edge, in shacks, on more fortunate porches) of the few but urgent needs of human continuance, of-more urgent still -the needs of the earth. You may even come away with something like my own sense that what is regrettable in Jimmy...
...introduced himself to the Class of '79 in Sanders Theater with the reassuring thought that "the process of change at Harvard moves with glacial speed." We accepted that, partly because it was 9 in the morning and still Freshman Week, and partly because it was spoken with such a calm assurance--the easy arrogance of the truth...