Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President remained calm. He seemed to snap back from his depression after losing Nebraska. "We've got to keep our cool," he told an agitated aide. Ford could still take heart from the latest Gallup poll, completed May 3, showing that Republicans favored him 60% to 35% over Reagan. The President was putting his faith in the basic instincts of Republicans when their hands were finally on the voting lever. Wild as they may be about Reagan, most Republicans know that they will probably have a better chance of winning in November with Ford...
...said his retraction does not mean that these issues are resolved, but that he had a responsibility "to calm things down...
...lifetime total to 23 plays. He has moved back to London and plans to stay. A man about town again, he dines out several nights a week with theater friends. When one of them recently brought up the subject of the ultimate end of his long career, Travers was calm and in character. Said he: "I want my tombstone to read, This is where the real fun begins...
...that began in the early 1960s and continues today has been all the more disturbing to citizens because it followed nearly three decades of low or at least stable crime rates. Rising crime during a period of rising prosperity was a profound shock, particularly following an era of political calm, apparent national unity, and widespread optimism about the strength and virtue of American society. No doubt Americans of the 1830s were equally shocked when the tumult and licentiousness of the Jacksonian era followed on the remembered-and perhaps exaggerated-heroics of the Revolutionary years...
Toward achieving an inner calm But it is the first step only...