Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gradually I brake and ease the car into a clearing off the road. The Mercury's engine gurgles and fails, it is quiet again. His face is finally calm, but I squeeze mine a little so it still looks offended. A yard away, a pile of fallen leaves breaks and an animal with a naked, ringed tail rustles out. Startled, my brother watches the possum's ambling intently. The car door swings wide and he slinks around to my side. I can't help smiling at his shrewd expression as he motions for me to step...
...rational and calm exchange of ideas and information I know the community is hopeful that a resolution will occur and the library as we understand it, will remain." he said...
...next day, January 23, Sweeney and Holcombe had a talk. "With much difficulty," she later wrote, "I finally convinced Sherman to come to my office at 2 p.m. hoping to calm his ire and explain to him why such procedures cannot be allowed. Although, I prefer to forget all the unpleasant details of this meeting I feel obligated to report the threat Mr. Holcombe made to me. That is quote: "and you better watch out for your...
...yourself." With that, Parent and his wife Carol took off for a cruise. In Martinique, he got a call informing him the Flyers had taken him back. His career had come full circle and Parent celebrated in style. "I was drunk for six days," he says. "The ocean was calm but the boat kept rocking...
...dubbing "Alice Roe." Edelin at first appeared nervous or perturbed, but he is a verbal man and responded with lengthy and coherent answers. Alternately furrowing his brow, gazing down at the linoleum floor, or staring sidelong out through a window, Edelin usually paused before answering questions and displayed a calm bemusement when his attorney, the court typist, or the judge stumbled on his scientific terms. He usually called the fetus and placenta "the products of conception" in describing abortion technique, and these explanations lacked the graphic polemicism that marked some prosecution testimony on the same subjects. Edelin employed his hands...