Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Minh announced in a brief radio address that he was offering an unconditional surrender to the P.R.G. "I believe in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of blood," he said. "For this reason I ask the soldiers of the Republic of Viet Nam to cease hostilities in calm and to stay where they are." Afterward Minh told a French journalist, "Yes, it [the surrender] had to be done. Human lives had to be saved...
Henry Kissinger seemed like his old self last week, calm, humorous, thoughtful and persuasive, reported TIME'S Washington bureau chief Hugh Sidey. He is making a determined effort, at a moment when much of the world calls his policies a failure and the U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam a debacle, to put the best face on things. The Secretary of State appears ready to launch a new period of foreign policy evolution and innovation-if events let him. He thinks they will, concludes Sidey, a longtime observer of the Secretary...
...make me feel as if I were sipping tea in their homes. But it just didn't work. They knew as well as I did that the purpose of my visit was not tea but blood. However, they were very considerate and did as much as they could to calm...
Hersey, who had spent a similar week with Harry Truman in the White House in 1951, scrutinized the President for any telltale "signals of stress under the calm exterior." But none were evident. The author speculates that Ford has so long been on the losing political side in the "national poker game" as a minority Congressman that he has learned to mask his feelings completely...
McDonald's officials take the direct assault with unruffled patriarchal calm. Says Public Relations Director Matt Lambert: "We couldn't be anything but pleased that their advertising stresses our success." Anyway, the fast-food battle is a three-or even four-front war. Burger King, another contender in the hamburger hassle, has funded a $3,000 "John Denker Scholarship" at the California Institute of Technology to honor a Caltech student who recently sabotaged a $47,000 McDonald's-sponsored contest. Denker found a loophole that allowed him and 25 fellow students to submit more than 1 million...