Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from within?white South Africa remains curiously peaceful. The street tensions and stonings within its removed black townships?even the ongoing massive school boycott by 200,000 students in Soweto?fail to transmit more than a ripple to what Novelist Nadine Gordimer (A World of Strangers) calls the "dreadful calm" of white society. So distant do such events seem, in fact, that most whites only learn of them from their newspapers. Of Johannesburg's white population of 600,000, precious few have ever set foot in Soweto, although it is a scant eight miles away. And to the farmers...
...finally realizing her independence, resists his possessiveness. When Brown moves to assault her babies, she grabs a carving knife and keeps him at bay, but then she weakens, startled by her violence and softened by the smoldering memories of their love. She puts down the weapon and everything appears calm until Brown suddenly seizes her son, carries him to a window and threatens to drop the infant from the fifth-story apartment if she will not marry...
Despite the general calm, some Israelis actively opposed the new measures. In the ancient southern city of Beersheba, workers marched through the streets shouting "Begin go home!" One-day strikes closed down the postal service in Tel Aviv, the national airline El Al, Tel Aviv's airport and the major seaports of Ashdod and Haifa. Those and other token work stoppages were ordered by the 1.2 million-member Histadrut labor federation, whose Secretary-General Yeruham Meshel warned Begin: "If you have decided on a free economy, we will not agree to keep only wages under controls. We will...
Unions seeking to organize at hospitals run up against special obstacles--they must confront the public's reluctance to see any kind of agitation become connected with the places where it seeks calm, well-ordered care. It is one thing to seek to join workers together in steel mills or auto factories, which deal with heavy technology and machinery. In these industries, unions fighting for more employee rights are working squarely on the side of humanity. They try to improve the place of the individual in a monolithic business that usually resembles a large, impersonal machine more than it does...
...three-day course, already taken by more than 750 officers from Texas, Florida and Kansas, consists of six hours of class instruction (usually in a converted saloon near Dallas) and 18 hours of driving on a course with turns known as Serpentine, Lollypop and T-Bone Alley. Turner emphasizes calm, smooth movements and no tire-squealing maneuvers. "Think slow," he tells students. "Make a corner better, and you can catch the guy even if he's going 20 miles an hour faster than...