Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Young, very young, Cauthen also accompanied his father on his smithing rounds at nearby race tracks. He began to help calm animals unnerved by shoeing or perturbed by a stranger's presence. He started to use his hands, and in his hands, horses relaxed. Whether coming from God, genes or good manners, this is the priceless gift for a jockey, the difference between wrestling a horse around a track, only to blunt his spirit for the run, and rating him kindly, handily, through the pace, while conserving enough of his energy for the stretch drive. Steve had the gift even...
...horse. "This Thoroughbred and Cauthen both seem so mature," she says. "But they're both so young. Both are very businesslike. Cauthen came in to ride in his first derby, and it was like he'd done it all before. And Affirmed was just like him, totally calm. The horse is quiet-the boy is quiet. Both are natural athletes. Affirmed has a beautiful look about him, and Cauthen's just the same...
With that calm announcement, Carter signaled that he had finally been persuaded by the advice that most businessmen, economists and congressional leaders have been giving him for several weeks: his proposed tax cut of about $25 billion is too large. In December, when he first proposed a cut of that size, Administration economists figured that it was needed to stimulate profits, investment and employment, and thus head off a business slowdown forecast for the second half of the year. Since then, inflation has picked up speed, to an annual rate of 9.2% during the first quarter of the year. Observed...
...self-declared killer's calm demeanor in court was evidently due, at least in part, to a religious conversion that he underwent while in custody. He had been visited in prison, at the behest of one court-appointed psychiatrist, by a Pentecostalist known as "Sister Smith"-Ollie Smith, 58, a beautician who serves part time as a volunteer prison worker. According to in camera testimony obtained by the New York Daily News, the psychiatrist described Berkowitz as "ecstatic, radiant, quoting Scripture right and left" after their talks. He also said that Berkowitz saw the guilty plea...
Arafat, who has been sounding unusually moderate of late, ordered Palestinian groups to keep calm, and Salvan broadcast an appeal to his men: "I am asking that no one should take revenge on my behalf." Alarmed by the rising disorder, the U.N. Security Council voted to increase the size of the U.N.'s force in southern Lebanon from...