Word: calm
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...Just when things had started to calm down, we were warned that Iraqi special-ops forces were nearby. We put on our helmets and Kevlar vests and hunkered down in our tents. There would be no air cover, given the weather. Our unit couldn't withstand an attack by tanks or grenades-hell, the wind nearly took...
...mother kicked out of her nursing home, all in wry, learned prose. Even when Cooney resorts to lies (for her mother) and booze and Valium (for herself), she never stoops to self-pity. "I understand that there is only one drug in the world that can keep my mother calm and centered," she writes, "and I am that drug...
...almost lyrically, through the neurological origins of the disease, and she doesn't spare us its ugly side, as when her father slams her into a wall in a demented rage. Her performance is an astonishing one, honest and free of wallowing, drenched in remembered pain but at a calm remove from it. When her father's end finally comes, Miller is brave enough to face her relief. "Guilty as I felt, terrified as I was, shamed as I felt for feeling it, I was glad...
...calm and composed Saddam Hussein delivered a speech on Iraqi TV just after 11a.m. Baghdad time on Monday. Although it?s almost certain that the speech was not live, Saddam did reference recent events, leaving even the most skeptical analysts to conclude that last week?s U.S. strikes apparently did not kill or severely injure the Iraqi leader...
...interviewer applies his thumb and forefinger to the soldier's head to steady it for the camera. Then to make his face more visible, the interviewer uses his hands to lift the soldier's head up, and eventually the soldier sits up on his own steam. He appears relatively calm and the questioning goes like this...