Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consider American arrogance-may, however, be the catalyst that brings unity. "We have lost a decade in European unity," says an aide to French President Georges Pompidou. "But because of the Middle East war we are moving once again. Europe has always advanced only in crises and never in calm. Copenhagen will be the summit of truth to see whether or not there is the political will for Europe to go forward...
...Maharaj Ji; during the latest trial, Davis occasionally folded himself into the lotus position in the courtroom. David Dellinger, 58, the elder of the original Seven, has been ill, most recently with gall bladder trouble. And in place of the choleric Judge Hoffman, there was Judge Edward Gignoux, a calm, amiable jurist imported from Maine. After Gignoux found Dellinger guilty (there was no jury), the defendant said: "You blew this one, but at least it was possible to have a dialogue. You have proved that a judge can be decent, a judge can be honorable, a judge can be polite...
...acknowledged that he had performed the operation badly. He also testified that the reason for his incompetence was his dependence from 1963 through 1970 on "uppers and downers." He popped stimulants to relieve the depression that followed an illness, then took tranquilizers to calm himself down. Somehow he kept his habit hidden from both his wife and the hospital personnel. He also confessed that he had lied in his two previous malpractice cases. He did so, he claimed, at the urging of attorneys for his insurance company...
...comparing the effect of electrical impulses in dogs that are in states of stress or calm, the researchers found that stress made the heart more unstable...
...beginning of the third scene, the girls are back, strangely calm and subdued and wearing Mona Lisa smiles. After they have completed a lengthy and amusing ritual of putting on makeup, pasting on eyebrows and rearranging their clothes, the boys cut out flat, and drive away leaving the girls stranded...