Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, scars remained. And Michael Wigglesworth (A.B. 1651) was the minister who started the movement to pay reparations to the families of the victims, while the young clergyman who restored calm to the village of Salem was Joseph Green...
...time, as the fleet continued to gather near Sandy Hook, the city was calm. But on July 2, when British ships headed up the Narrows, New York was aroused. Soon, from St. Paul's Church at the city's northern edge to the Bowling Green, drummers began beating out the long ominous roll that calls soldiers to assembly. In the hazy heat, Continentals and militia, some in blue coats and buckskin breeches, some in brown hunting shirts, formed up, shouldered arms, then clattered over durable Dutch cobblestones to man sod redoubts recently thrown up at the foot...
Trial Tone. The evenhanded tone of the trial was set by Chief Judge Ernesto Texeira da Silva, a Luanda lawyer. He questioned witnesses in a calm, fatherly way, occasionally rebuked flamboyant, goateed Prosecutor Manuel Rui Monteiro, and allowed defense lawyers to introduce matters that Western courts would quickly have ruled inadmissible or irrelevant. At one point the judge ordered the arrest of a prosecution witness for perjury and had the testimony of another stricken from the record...
...MAINTAINING ORDER. The mayors of the West Bank will either run their own cities properly or otherwise we shall take the necessary measures to calm down the situation. The Arab dilemma is obvious: if they continue these riots, they will make their lives impossible. The mayors must worry about development loans [provided by Israel], playgrounds, traffic, collecting the taxes from gas stations. Parents also are very concerned that their children take their examinations on time and don't lose a year of school. We do not want the mayors of the West Bank to be policemen. But a mayor...
...spurious religious society, ran off. In her 50s, still attractively statuesque, Miss Herbert takes up with a kinky London publisher whose idea of a good time is to make her strike "love portraits" against his collection of mummy wrappings and poison rings. The activity gives her a calm feminine feeling "that for the first time she was beginning to understand 'mature...