Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Bill Vaughan, 61, author of the Kansas City Star "Starbeams" column, syndicated as "Senator Soaper Says"; of lung cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. For 31 years, Vaughan filled his daily columns with 13 pithy paragraphs. Sample: "People we agree with are calm and enthusiastic; everybody else is apathetic and hysterical...
...uppers-legal ones when possible, she says-when she is on the road. "You have to face 20,000 people, and you can't just write off St. Louis because you're feeling low." But in the past year, running has become her cure-all and her calm-down...
...reputation of being a precarious person, a victim, a lovable mess. This seems exaggerated. Back at the Plaza, calm now, she is glad to be 30. During her twenties, she says, "I felt like a submarine with depth charges going off all around me." The heartbreak in her songs ("I've been cheated, been mistreated/ When will I be loved?") was real enough...
...have a calm, patient nature. Friends turn to you because you are a good listener. Love bewilders you because people wrongly consider you cold...
...sissies when deprived of cigarettes or given only low-nicotine brands. Those supplied with armloads of high-nicotine brands to smoke accepted a higher number of shocks-but no more than the control group of nonsmokers. Schachter's conclusion: "Smoking doesn't reduce anxiety or calm the nerves. Not smoking increases anxiety by throwing the smoker into withdrawal...