Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Calm and smiling, the blonde young woman turned to the Miami gas-station attendant, raised what looked like a gray flashlight-and fired. "I fell on the floor and couldn't move," recalled William Lawson. "It was like sticking your finger in a wall socket . . . the worst pain I ever felt." Though he did not know it at the time, Lawson, 27, had been felled by a brand-new, high-voltage weapon called the stun gun. More properly known as a Taser,* the gun was developed for law-enforcement use. No police force has yet bought it, but thugs...
HARVARD-BOSTON UNIVERSITY: If Harvard's defensive secondary is as strong as it should be, then there will be no problem today. But if things get out of hand, the consequences will be something bordering on embarrassment. Here's to a calm and prudent football game. Harvard 30, B.U.21
Until then, stay calm and try to look like you don't care...
First came the initial shock and the sleepless nights. Randolph Hearst, by nature not given to quick and decisive action, managed to keep calm while awaiting, then struggling to comply with, the demands of the S.L.A. Catherine, his wife, genteel daughter of a Georgia telephone executive, was dumbfounded by the violence and noticeably more anxious. A devout Roman Catholic, she spent many hours in prayer. In their helplessness, the parents began to clutch at straws: two psychics were invited to the Hearsts' house in suburban Hillsborough and ran their fingers over a map of Northern California seeking "impulses...
...index as a whole is likely to rise more than in August, though scarcely back to the double-digit range. At the least, though, the August figures give weight to the Ford Administration's argument that the scary inflation pace of early summer was an aberration, and might calm nervous consumers and investors. Indeed, the stock market, after falling to 795 on the Dow Jones industrial average-close to its summer low-rallied late last week to end Friday...