Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them, while patrolwomen more modestly concluded that under most circumstances they were as good as but no better than men. Yet under stress there may well have been a female advantage. Noted one policewoman wryly: "A lot of times a female officer is not only able to be cool, calm and persuasive with the disorderly; she can also help to do the same with her male partner...
...visiting lecturer in the Department of Radiology. Vrba does not look like a man who spent two years in Auschwitz. His face is cheerful, almost radiant, his hair is still dark, and he looks even younger than his 49 years. He speaks about his experiences in a calm, matter-of-fact voice, but an underlying tone of deep bitterness is easily detectable...
Once relatively calm and collected, Patty's parents are showing signs of strain. Catherine Hearst seems despondent; her reaction to the bank-robbery pictures reportedly was, "Doesn't my Patty look thin and tired?" Even Randolph Hearst has begun to despair. "We have hope," he says, "but it is not too bright now." He is willing to clutch at any straw and search anywhere for an intermediary who can put him in touch with the S.L.A. He recently visited Clifford Jefferson, a black lifer at Vacaville known as "Death Row Jeff' who knew Cinque very well. Hearst has even talked...
...Syrians hoped to convince Israel that they could fight as long as Israeli troops occupied the strategic mountain. Syria's message was clear: It would fight until Israel came up with a significant pullback. Syrian Vice Foreign Minister Abdel Ghani Rafii told TIME Correspondent William Stewart in a calm and strangely relaxed Damascus last week: "If we have assur ances about withdrawal and the restoration of Palestinian rights, we can dis cuss the rest at Geneva. Disengagement is the interim step...
Died. Frank McGee, 52, host of NBC'S Today program since 1971 and one of television's most prominent newsmen; of pneumonia following treatment for cancer of the bone marrow; in Manhattan. McGee was best known for his crisp, calm reporting at times of stress, epitomized by his twelve-hour marathon as NBC'S co-anchor man the day President Kennedy was assassinated. A seemingly ubiquitous narrator of documentaries, McGee became a lay expert on rocketry while covering the U.S. space program. Although suffering severely from back pains for the past few months, he bravely continued...