Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most likely candidate is White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz, who at 55 is the Methuselah of the West Wing. With a calm and deliberate manner -sharply different from the laid-back informality of the other Georgians-he presides at the daily 8 a.m. senior staff meetings and mediates when other aides differ. Before going to Washington, he was a highly successful lawyer and a pillar of Atlanta's Jewish community. He began advising Carter in 1966 and served as his campaign treasurer...
...grabber of Villaescusa. The kidnaping of the prestigious general was an unprecedented affront to Spain's powerful military, but its leadership appeared in no mood to retaliate outside the law. Said Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Jose Vega Rodriguez: "The army has demonstrated that it is nonpolitical, calm and confident...
Clarkson managed to keep things calm by beating Princeton, 3-0, but Dartmouth was not quite as fortunate. One of the many teams involved in the heated battle for the playoffs, the Big Green managed to be tied by one of the few teams not involved. Tim Taylor's "proud" Yale team turned the trick, 5-5, in a regionally televised ECAC contest...
Three Noises. The Rev. Thomas Meersman, the Roman Catholic prison chaplain, intoned the last rites. Fortified by a bit of contraband whisky smuggled into the prison, Gilmore remained calm as the state medical examiner pinned a target over his heart. Nor did he flinch when the doctor fitted the black corduroy hood over his head. Then the priest placed his hand on Gilmore's shoulder. Tilting his head, the condemned man, who was reared as a Catholic, spoke his last words: "Dominus vobiscum [The Lord be with you]." Replied Father Meersman: "Et cum spiritu tuo [And with your spirit...
...cope with a situation that the founding fathers anticipated, which was weakness of human nature. If we'd just go back to that and not think we could legislate morality and not keep thinking about this business of everybody being superhuman. The country stood strong, the people stood calm, and he is out. We are now back to normal. This is the thing my brother talks about-this mystical thing that is democracy...