Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Wolfe, 22, the son of a Pennsylvania anesthesiologist and one of those slain in the Los Angeles firefight. In a soft and calm tone, Patty said that her relationship with Wolfe, whom she called "Cujo," was founded on a "commitment to the struggle and our love for the people." She added: "He taught me the truth. We loved each other so much. His love for the people was so deep that he was willing to give his life for them. The name Cujo means 'unconquerable.' It was the perfect name...
...snow-capped mountains and countless whitewashed Buddhist temples, the tiny Himalayan country of Bhutan is probably the world's closest real-life equivalent to James Hilton's Shangri-La. The 1,100,000 Bhutanese, most of whom are illiterate peasants, sense that they live in a uniquely calm and contented country, which they call "the end of the rainbow land of desires." Last week Bhutan gave itself another distinction by publicly crowning the world's youngest monarch, 18-year-old King Jigme Singye Wangchuk. He will henceforth be known as "the dragon king...
JEAN SAUVAGNARGUES, 59, Foreign Minister. Calm and smoothly professional, Sauvagnargues (pronounced sew-va-nyarg) should bring a sharp change in tone to French diplomacy. His predecessor, Michel Jobert, delighted in public jousting with Washington over oil and Middle East policy-a performance that Pompidou felt was necessary to please his restive Gaullist constituency...
STAND FAST! KEEP CALM! VICTORY is IN SIGHT! implored the words scribbled on a blackboard at a Belfast street corner last week. The message was an appeal to Protestants in Ulster's latest, and perhaps most serious crisis. A province-wide general strike brought business to a complete standstill, forced most of the province's 180,000 industrial workers off the job and shut down virtually all shops. Ulster was on the brink of economic paralysis...
After the class Flym appears in a high, black-felt, Indian-style hat that accentuates his dark bushy eyebrows. He talks in a very calm, slow voice. "By concentrating on the Burger Court and trying to perceive the thought processes of the justices, we can show when they are consistent or not. We get an understanding of the conflict in values that pervades our society. We don't look in the judicial process as if it were a machine with individual views submerged. There's no need to pretend that there is clarity in the Court's decisions. To reach...