Word: calme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Calm & Clarity. Hanoi's vaguely pacific and calculatedly public overtures were followed by a propaganda barrage, emanating mostly from Russia and Eastern Europe, aimed at convincing Washington that Hanoi, like Barkis, was willing. At home, the echoes from this campaign could be heard in various appeals to the President to stop the bombing. They came from a group of 28 prominent clergymen, from 400 former Peace Corpsmen, from thousands of "peace fasters" in 200 cities who restricted themselves to diets of rice and liquids for three days...
...restated the U.S. position that "you can't stop this war simply by stopping a half of it." It was not a crowd-pleasing role for Rusk: some newsmen had arrived hoping for news of an important move toward peace. But the Secretary carried it off with characteristic calm and clarity...
...Vivant on cello: Cool, detached, debonair, he exudes calm assurance-and amore. Convinced that the sound of his cello is a mating call, he is a dedicated lady killer and a divorcee. Besides women, he collects Chinese jade and pre-Columbian...
...four hours a night during the Baker trial. In the courtroom, he is in complete control. He has a computer memory for the remotest dates and details; his material is so well organized that documents flash into his hands like a magician's rabbits. His hair wavy, his calm buttoned down, he cross-examines hostile witnesses with utter courtesy; he seems never to be trying to trip them up, only to help the jury get things straight. He shuns anger: "It's not a useful emotion." Yet in summing up, he pulls all emotional stops: his rhetoric sweeps...
...Stieglitz, formerly Republic Aviation's safety-design chief, had argued so bitterly against any compromise that he began to be excluded from the sessions. Stieglitz noisily resigned last week, declaring the standards "totally inadequate" and asserting-correctly-that "my opinion was not asked on any matters." In calm reply, Haddon said that if Stieglitz had had his way, "many, if not all, 1968 passenger cars could not, in our best judgment, have been manufactured...