Word: calme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Friday afternoon the Severn was calm in the rain for the Crimson's pre-race workout, but by Saturday morning a gale-like tailwind had kicked up the Severn's waters into a ferocious chop with whitecaps...
White House Correspondent Dean Fischer began gathering background on Ford's deliberations during the President's recent eight-day working vacation in Palm Springs. Back in Washington last week, Fischer saw the White House mood turn sharply "from calm contemplation to grim apprehension" as the military situation in Indochina deteriorated. Pentagon Correspondent Joseph Kane, who filed on the plans for emergency evacuation of U.S. citizens and others from Saigon, found an atmosphere of bleak and open pessimism
...night before the evacuation it was pretty clear that the next day would be it. The American embassy spread word to newsmen who would go to gather at the Phnom Hotel, Phnom-Penh's journalistic watering hole, at 7 a.m. The night was relatively calm. No Cambodians could have guessed that the U.S. was about to abandon them...
Saigon has often known danger but never as acutely as now. There have been times of great peril-such as the 1968 Tet offensive that brought savage street fighting into the heart of the city-but Saigon managed swiftly to regain its calm, almost nonchalant air. This time the pressure is building slowly but surely, and the old insouciance is fast disappearing...
...soldiers and the people to find out the situation and inspire them with confidence. Do you like horses? Horses have to be spoken to in order to have confidence. If your horse has confidence in you, he will let you mount him. You must caress your horse, calm...