Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to calm the frenzy, 13 California counties containing more than two-thirds of the state's drivers last week adopted an allocation plan-the first government-sponsored one in the nation in five years. The plan, made possible by legislation hastily drafted by Governor Jerry Brown, is that followed widely across the nation during the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo: drivers whose license plates end with an odd number can buy gas only on odd-numbered days, with even numbers only on even-numbered days. The plan will do nothing to increase supplies, or even to reduce consumption...
Although Koreans call their country Choson, or Land of the Morning Calm, its history has been anything but. Subject to sporadic invasions by Chinese, Japanese and Mongols. Korea has long suffered the imposition of foreign political, religious and aesthetic traditions. Understandably, its art was long considered provincial and derivative. Spurred by archaeological discoveries of the past five decades though, historians have finally begun to recognize the Korean achievement, which Americans can now see in the most comprehensive exhibition of Korean art ever assembled...
...Defense succeeds in forging those links and providing the alternatives. The Boston Study Group members begin with a coherent view of what U.S. foreign policy goals should be--defense of our traditional allies and of the United States itself, and the maintenance of a nuclear second-strike capability. In calm and modest style, they then describe in detail how U.S. defense spending could be reduced by 40 per cent. They propose cutbacks in the forces "which are primarily useful not against the U.S.S.R. but against the lesser military powers in the poorer half of the world, like Vietnam...
...began at 5:15 a.m., as the crews took advantage of calm, early-morning waters and chose to race in the wee hours. Varsity two seat Mike Cominsky summed up the varsity contest, saying, "Navy was with us until the start of the race. After five strokes they could have been considered 'Missing In Action...
...race had been billed as a battle of the heavyweight best. It had been called a preview of the May 12 Sprints. But on an unusually calm Charles River, the event turned out to be little more than a continuation of the past three years, as a powerful Yale eight smoked an upset-minded Radcliffe boat by an open-water, 10-second margin...