Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Taiwanese can express their worries to Washington in English; in recent weeks 142,000 such letters have been sent to the White House and Congress. Instead of warning smokers about health dangers, packs of Taiwanese cigarettes carry a chin-up slogan: "Maintain self-respect and self-strengthening: stay calm in the face of adversity...
...deals. In Jerusalem, U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis called on Begin to express the same concerns. Begin listened to the U.S. complaints, but then insisted that he had merely been carrying out some campaign pledges. That explanation may help Begin with his admiring local public, but it does little to calm Washington's growing unease about his government-and nothing at all to advance the cause of peace in the Middle East...
...sure, the thin half-smile he wore as flashbulbs assailed him was infuriating. But the paunch, the round and smooth face, the short, curly hair and calm manner all seemed far from menacing. Rather than sinister, Berkowitz looked innocuous, an unexceptional figure unlikely to attract attention anywhere. As the facts of his life began to emerge, the much-sought gunman turned out to be the loner the psychologists had predicted. He had apparently abandoned the few friends acquired in his earlier years, lived alone in a sparsely furnished apartment in suburban Yonkers, got along comfortably with fellow postal workers...
...suits, and they speak with studied confidence of their assignment. They are, after all, among the best trained pilots in the Marine Corps, and they would hardly betray anxiety over the risks of flying anything, much less a nifty little plane designed to revolutionize naval aviation. In the placid calm of the ready room of Marine Attack Squadron 231 at Cherry Point, N.C., Captain Cliff Dunn, 33, declares: "We're fairly convinced there's nothing wrong with the plane. We wouldn't fly it if we thought there was. Nobody I know has a death wish...
Kremlin's strident opposition to American policy is bluff, and that Soviet leaders will calm down if and when Carter convinces them that he is not going to change his line...