Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maid, is the funniest in the whole play. Soup is inevitably spilled, plates dropped, and strange crashes are heard from the direction of the kitchen, "Oh, that must be the salmon." McGee explains to the guests. "The cat's had it on the floor three times already." Snorty's calm, almost scholarly manner makes a nice counterpoint to all the chaotic running around, and Maxwell's subtle performance is a welcome break from the usual mugging...
...anything, independence may prove to be even more traumatic in Mozambique's sister colony of Angola, which is due to be given its freedom in November. Reports from the Angolan capital of Luanda last week spoke of "relative calm"-meaning only scattered shooting in the city's muceques (slums) and perhaps a dozen deaths in the capital. An estimated 1,200 people have been killed in fighting since last January. In an effort to halt the bloodshed, Portuguese troops swept through the muceques and found an enormous hoard of arms, including mortars, machine guns, mines and homemade bombs...
...three-day event was first introduced at the Olympics in 1912 under the name "The Military." The first day is the Dressage test which challenges the rider and horse to perform a series of some 20 tricky maneuvers, "to show the horse is calm and precise on the parade ground...
...more philosophical moments, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has pondered his new boss in the international setting. He fits him into the company-if not yet, of course, the stature-of Harry Truman and Pope John, men elevated to power because they were perceived to be plain, calm and safe...
Like Eisenhower. Europeans were also pleased by Ford's style, which they characterize as warm, candid, direct, open and firm. At the Vatican, one prelate was impressed with Ford's "physical presence," while another thought he noted a certain similarity to Eisenhower. "Calm activism" is the way Italian officials describe the impression given by Ford that "he doesn't want to let a situation stagnate. He really wants to set the whole chessboard into motion...