Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene of astonishing chaos and misery, crammed with hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees and soldiers trying to shoot their way onto the planes and boats leaving for safe havens farther south. But according to a group of French journalists, who flew there from Hanoi, the city is now calm and orderly as its transformation under a Communist government begins...
Harvard continues to be a calm spot in the sea of East Coast campuses that have been torn apart by the recession-inspired issue of the year, student fee hikes...
...Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sacked his Premier and shuffled his Cabinet to calm domestic protests that threaten his position...
...assumed the directorship of the newly built Atomic Bomb Memorial Hospital in 1956. But he still found time to treat bomb victims. "I'm a bedside physician," he said. "It's my duty to do all I can for them." His patients were reassured by his calm, Buddha-like demeanor. Said a woman suffering from a bomb-induced cancer, "I feel relieved each time he even smiles...
...livelier - and even more unpleasant. As a girl she is saved from impending rape in Whitechapel, but the man who saved her turned out to be a perverted missionary. By contrast, the weekly blend of world crisis and teapot tragedy at Eaton Place - where all the books end - seems calm indeed...