Word: calm
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...this summer, the calm has been disrupted. Residents are up in arms, launching petition drives and filling town hall for the Town Council’s weekly meetings...
...crowd gathered. A well-dressed Liberian man stepped in and said his piece: "He's from outside, let him take our message to the west. That's what we want." "We do?" asked the policeman. "We want people to know our sentiment," said the man. His argument seemed to calm the policeman. He handed me the poster. "Okay," he said, sharply, and then marched off again in search of other misdemeanors. The well-dressed man smiled at me and shook my hand. I thanked...
...horrified moment of silence, everyone heard a crunching sound. Bronstein, showing fortitude not seen since St. George, pinned the dragon with the heel of his half-eaten foot so the beast couldn't throw him to the ground and polish him off. "I think he has an unbelievable calm under pressure," says Stone proudly. "And I'm sure this is something he learned during his years in the war zone. You don't become a Pulitzer finalist twice because you're running around being freaked out, you know? He yelled, then he reached down and opened the jaws...
...inconceivable that we will do what we ought, unless you help people understand and deal with the facts in a calm and honest and open way,” Clinton said...
...Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is insisting that before moving to any next step, there has to be absolute calm for seven days, plus the cooling-off period. But it's not unlikely that he's going to be more flexible, because he wants this to work. Sharon needs some way out of the current situation. It's what he promised Israeli voters, and he doesn't want to have to deal with this level of violence. So he may be setting out a negotiating position - he came down from 10 days without violence to seven, after talking with Powell...