Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bounces without even trying. You bounce some more when, bypassing the triple-dip chrome barbells, you are harnessed to a rig called the wood roller massaging machine. Your reaction is immediate: "T-t-u-r-n-n i-t-t o-f-f-f!" BACK WALKING. All is calm in yoga class. "Sink deeply into the floor," whispers our guru, demonstrating the corpse position. "Float away." Class ends, but next to you, Herb Zimmerman, a Wall Street broker, is still floating. "I see a little creek," he mutters. "Trickling water. I'm actually there." Later, you and Herb...
...contrast to the stormy scenes in North Africa, Rogers' welcome to Ethiopia was calm. On arriving in Addis, Rogers laid out the four basic principles on which U.S.-African policy would be based: 1) opposition to "systems based on racial discrimination" -a clear slap at the governments of South Africa, Rhodesia and the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique; 2) "deep respect for the independence and sovereignty of African nations"; 3) recognition of a "special obligation" to assist African economic development; and 4) the intent to help Africa keep out of struggles between the big-power blocs...
...this moment coach Jack Barnaby walked into the gallery. Abrams next point and Barnaby asked. "What's the score?" When the reply came. "1-4 in a five-point set." Barnaby's face remained completely blank and calm. Abrams did not disappoint his coach, s??eeping the last four points for victory...
...northeaster rattled the windows of the statehouse in Augusta while legislators last week considered an issue that was potentially more stormy: imposition of the strongest state anti-pollution controls in the U.S. on an industry that Maine's economy needs. Yet the debate was calm. The lawmakers had become so convinced of the need to protect the environment that the bills aroused only token opposition. As oil lobbyists watched uneasily, the legislation was quickly approved in both houses...
...lady in question is Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons), who has been married for well over a decade to an enterprising Denver lawyer named Ered Wilson (John Forsythe). Soon after the breakfast scene, Mary is revealed to be an alcoholic, pill-popping neurotic who flies off to the Bahamas to calm her tortured soul. Providing some salve under the sun are an old college buddy turned mistress-for-hire (Shirley Jones) and her latest beau (Lloyd Bridges), who watch benignly as Mary succumbs to the brilliantine blandishments of an aging gigolo (Bobby-pardon, Robert-Darin). Refreshed and renewed, Mary returns...