Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHILE HARVARD lulled in the calm of slow change and little protest this past year, the world saw dramatic triumph for the people of Vietnam. Our focus was turned away from the important issues at Harvard when, after thirty years of relentless fighting--and twenty years when the United States was the enemy--the National Liberation Front marched into Saigon victorious in its longstanding struggle for independence. And in Cambodia the Khmer Rouge won in its fight against the corrupt Lon Nol regime after five years of fighting...
Dixy Lee Ray, Sc.D., Assistant Secretary of State. Not one to be awed into silent inactivity by the promises of pure technology, she has dealt with the implications of science with a calm logic and with consistent attention to its human role...
...situation there during his tenure as national security advisor was relatively calm, and there was no immediate pressure on Kissinger to declare his position on the Mideast, which of course suited him just fine. But, as luck would have it, just a little more than a month after his appointment as Secretary of State, the fourth Arab-Israeli war in 25 years began. Suddenly, the area of the world which he had signally avoided involving himself in because Kissinger's highest priority...
Once they have set a course, courts can be as slow to come about as a squarerigger in a flat calm. Now the U.S. Supreme Court has finally managed a reversal of course from a line of cases first charted...
...seemed to be aware of the impending catastrophe: the butcher and his assistant kept hacking away at the three chunks of meat, prospective customers stood talking quietly in the general lassitude of a 90-degree day. Finally even the flies settled down in the warm calm...