Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have met many guerrillas. I've talked to them. I admire them. I think that the ones I've met are very well read. They are generally much less irascible than I. They're usually more calm than I and they are not as emotional as I am, perhaps. They are a very dedicated people, and very religious. Their first step is to say "I am going to lose my fear of death before I join this movement." Their second step is to consider themselves as a seed. (As Jesus said, "The seed has to fall to the ground...
Yablonski was no stranger to venom. Reports TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan: "Joseph A. Yablonski was a rasp-voiced man with bushy eyebrows and a kind of wild glint in his eye. He did not by his presence establish an air of calm and reasonableness. He was a man haunted by many demons. It is not surprising that he died violently, reaching for his gun. He was in and around violence much of his life...
...case. Philadelphia, near where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964, is expected to desegregate without incident. So is Yazoo City, a west central Mississippi community of 12,100. Instead of waiting vainly for last-minute deliverance, local leaders called a public meeting to appeal for calm and compliance. They will probably get both. A majority of the 1,200 attending left the meeting convinced that the public school system could survive the integration of the town's 2,014 white and 2,089 black students...
...Brel McCoy is the first president not related to the Du Pont family by blood or marriage, he has been nurtured in Du Pont traditions; his father was a director, vice president and member of the executive committee. McCoy, who has spent 37 years with the company, is typically calm, thoughtful, and a believer in moving cautiously. The tone of the company is still set by the Du Pont family, one of the largest and most cohesive dynasties in U.S. history. Through its Christiana Securities Co., the family can vote a dominant 29% of Du Font's common stock...
...satiric comments on the pro-Fascist Argentine government and the accession of Juan Peron to power brought him a demotion from a state job as librarian to the post of chicken inspector in Buenos Aires. Today, at home, the aging poet's days are full of calm work and study. Lately he has received special assistance from a young American, Norman de Giovanni, who is translating all Borges' writing into English...