Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keeping the puck inside the B.C. blue line, Weiland's second line worked away on goalie Apprille until a shot by Smith found its mark at 9:15. The goal was followed by more personal friction requiring official intervention. Feeling ran so high that the usually calm Weiland jumped on the ice to dispute a call midway through the period...
Minsky O'Ryan and the Magic Bathrobe is not entirely bad. As Minsky, a man who destroys things, Lauent Weisman is very effective. He portrays Minsky with a forceful calm that the play lacks. Richard Black plays his dinner guest, an advertising executive, with the deliberate superficiality the role requires. But it is not much of a role, and Black's jittery movements and exaggerated expressions of joy only add to the chaos of Sisson's play...
Powers remained unbothered. "President Kennedy," he said with tight-lipped calm, "has been illadvised. Nobody can tell me that there is anything in our demands that is unreasonable." All Powers wanted was his own kind of contract. "A man must believe in unions to do this. You can't rely on management. Employers won't give you a dime. The public's desire is a settlement. Our desire is a contract." And the strike went...
Died. Robert LeRoy Cochran, 77, three-term governor of Nebraska, a slender, conservative Democrat, who was unwillingly pushed into the 1934 gubernatorial campaign from his post as state engineer, won a close election and so surprised the voters with his calm, sensible administration that they sent him back for two more terms; after a stroke; in Lincoln...
...than drink: slavery. All his other concerns were sidelined while he concentrated on this one. Moving from newspaper to newspaper, he impudently courted libel suits with his inflammatory editorials against slaveowners and traders. Convicted in one case, he spent 49 days in jail. Urged by a fellow abolitionist to calm down, Garrison snapped: "I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt." In 1831 he launched his newspaper, The Liberator, which so infuriated the South that the Georgia legislature offered $5,000 reward to anyone who brought them Garrison...